Genesis 46:28-34 ▼

28 And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct before him to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.

29 And Joseph harnessed his chariot, and he went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father, and he appeared to him, and he fell on his necks, and he wept on his necks a long time.

30 And Israel said to Joseph, “Let me die now, after my seeing your face, for you are still alive.”

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

32 And the men are shedherds of sheep, for they have been men of livestock; and their flocks and their herds and all that is theirs, they have brought.’

33 And it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you? and says, ‘What are your? works?’

34 That you? shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth and even until now, both we and also our fathers,’ so that you? may dwell in the land of Goshen. For an abomination of Egypt is every shepherd of sheep.”