Genesis 46:33

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

Genesis 46:33 in Other Translations

33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

33 When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation? ’

33 Then he said, “When Pharaoh calls for you and asks you about your occupation,

33 When Pharaoh calls you in and asks what kind of work you do,

33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

33 Now, when Pharaoh calls for you and asks, 'What kind of work do you do?'

33 When Pharaoh addresses you and asks, 'What is your occupation?'

33 "Pharaoh will send for you. He'll ask, 'What do you do for a living?'

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 Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32 The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.’

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

34 you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 47:3