33 And if Pharaoh call you, and ask you, What is your trade?

34 That ye shall say, Thy servants are men occupied about cattle, from our childhood even unto this time, both we and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen: for every sheep keeper is an [a]abomination unto the Egyptians.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 46:34 God suffereth the world to hate his, that they may forsake the filth of the world, and cleave to him.

33 When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’(A) 34 you should answer, ‘Your servants(B) have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’(C) Then you will be allowed to settle(D) in the region of Goshen,(E) for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.(F)

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