² This is the account^(A) of Jacob’s family line.

Joseph,^(B) a young man of seventeen,^(C) was tending the flocks^(D) with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah^(E) and the sons of Zilpah,^(F) his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report^(G) about them.

Joseph Sold by His Brothers

¹² Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,^(A)

³² The men are shepherds;^(A) they tend livestock,^(B) and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.’^{(C) 33} When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’^{(D) 34} you should answer, ‘Your servants^(E) have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’^(F) Then you will be allowed to settle^(G) in the region of Goshen,^(H) for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.^(I)”

³ Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?”^(A)

“Your servants^(B) are shepherds,^(C)” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.”