Genesis 46:33

33 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 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have come to me.

32 The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’

33 When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’

34 you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”