约瑟从弟兄中带了五个人去见法老。 法老问他们:“你们做什么工作?”他们回答说:“仆人们祖祖辈辈都是牧羊的。 迦南的饥荒很严重,羊群没有草吃,所以我们到这里来寄居,求你准许仆人们住在歌珊。”

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约瑟从他所有的兄弟当中,挑选了五个人,把他们带到法老面前。 法老问约瑟的兄弟们说:“你们是作甚么的?”他们回答法老:“仆人们是牧羊人,我们和我们的祖先都是一样。” 他们又对法老说:“我们来是要在这地寄居,因为迦南地的饥荒严重,你仆人们的羊群没有草吃,所以,现在求你容许你仆人住在歌珊地。”

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He chose five of his brothers and presented them(A) before Pharaoh.

Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?”(B)

“Your servants(C) are shepherds,(D)” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.” They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while,(E) because the famine is severe in Canaan(F) and your servants’ flocks have no pasture.(G) So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”(H)

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