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We’ve come to live for a while[a] in this region, since there is no pasture back in Canaan[b] for your servants’ flocks. May your servants please live in the Goshen territory?”

Then Pharaoh replied to Joseph, “Now that your father and your brothers have come to you, Egypt[c] is at your disposal,[d] so settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land! Let them live in the Goshen territory. If you learn that any of them are especially skilled, put them in charge of my livestock.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:4 The Heb. lacks for a while
  2. Genesis 47:4 The Heb. lacks back in Canaan
  3. Genesis 47:6 Lit. from the land of Egypt, and so throughout the chapter
  4. Genesis 47:6 Lit. is before you