Genesis 46:34
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| Overview - Genesis 46 | |
| 1 | Jacob is comforted by God at Beer-sheba. |
| 5 | Thence he with his company goes into Egypt. |
| 8 | The number of his family that went into Egypt. |
| 28 | Joseph meets Jacob. |
| 31 | He instructs his brethren how to answer Pharaoh. |
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Genesis 46:34 (King James Version)
That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
- Thy servants
- 32 ; 30:35 34:5 37:12
- for every
- From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call {hycassos,} or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like
- the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 ; years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians. 43:32 Exodus 8:26