Genesis 46:33

33 Now when Pharaoh summons you and asks, 'What is your occupation?'

Genesis 46:33 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 46:33

And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you
Order them to come before him, to see them, and have some conversation with them:

and shall say, what [is] your occupation?
or your works ^F3, their business and employment, whether they exercised any manufacture or handicraft, and what it was.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (Mkyvem) "opus vestrum", Pagninus, Montanus, "opera vestra", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius.

Genesis 46:33 In-Context

31 Yosef said to his brothers and his father's family, "I'm going up to tell Pharaoh. I'll say to him, 'My brothers and my father's family, who were in the land of Kena'an, have come to me.

32 The men are shepherds and keepers of livestock; they have brought their flocks, their herds and all their possessions.'

33 Now when Pharaoh summons you and asks, 'What is your occupation?'

34 tell him, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth until now, both we and our ancestors.'This will ensure that you will live in the land of Goshen - for any shepherd is abhorrent to the Egyptians."