Genesis 46:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³² The men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² and the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been keeping livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

Common English Bible

³² The men are shepherds, because they own livestock. They’ve brought with them their flocks and herds and everything they own.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² And these honorable men are pastors of sheep, and they have the task of feeding the flock. Their cattle, and herds, and all that they were able to hold, they have brought with them.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² And the men are shepherds, and their occupation is to feed cattle: their flocks and herds, and all they have, they have brought with them.

Genesis 46:32 Cross References

Genesis 31:18

and he drove away all his livestock, all the property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37:2

These are the descendants of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

Genesis 4:2

Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 45:10

You shall settle in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, as well as your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

Genesis 46:31

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

Genesis 46:33

When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’

Genesis 46:34

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors,’ in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”

Genesis 47:3

Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, as our ancestors were.”

Genesis 9:20

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.

1 Kings 9:27

Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.

Exodus 3:1

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom and gently lead the mother sheep.

Zechariah 13:5

but each of them will say, “I am no prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for the land has been my possession since my youth.”

1 Samuel 16:11

Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

1 Samuel 17:15

but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.