Genesis 47:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.

⁴ We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for the flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be in the land of Gessen.

⁵ The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee.