1. Joseph went in to Pharaoh and said, “My father and my brothers and all their families are here. They have all their animals and everything they own from the land of Canaan with them. They are now in the land of Goshen.”
2. Joseph chose five of his brothers to be with him before the Pharaoh.
3. Pharaoh said to the brothers, “What work do you do?” The brothers said to Pharaoh, “Sir, we are shepherds, just as our ancestors were shepherds before us.”
4. They said to Pharaoh, “The famine is very bad in Canaan. There are no fields left with grass for our animals, so we have come to live in this land. We ask you to please let us live in Goshen.”
5. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.