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Now Joseph had chosen five of his brothers and brought them along to present to Pharaoh.

Pharaoh (to Joseph’s brothers): What is your occupation?

Joseph’s Brothers: Your servants are shepherds. We tend sheep and goats as our ancestors did before us.

We’ve come to reside in this land as foreigners for a time because there is no place in the land of Canaan for us to pasture our flocks on account of the severity of the famine. Now please, allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen until this famine is over.

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