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.”

¹³ David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?”

He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite.^(A) My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago.