³⁰ Israel^(A) said to Joseph, “Now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive.”^(B)

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,^(C) have come to me.^{(D) 32} The men are shepherds;^(E) they tend livestock,^(F) and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.’^(G)