Genesis 46:32
Good News Translation
I will tell him that you are shepherds and take care of livestock and that you have brought your flocks and herds and everything else that belongs to you.

New Revised Standard Version
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.’

Contemporary English Version
I will tell him that you are shepherds and that you have brought your sheep, goats, cattle, and everything else you own.

New American Bible
The men are shepherds, having been owners of livestock; and they have brought with them their flocks and herds, as well as everything else they own.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

shepherds.

Genesis 4:2 And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.

Genesis 31:18 And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.

Genesis 37:2 And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

Genesis 47:3 And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We, thy servants, are shepherds, both we and our fathers.

Exodus 3:1 Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

1 Samuel 16:11 And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.

1 Samuel 17:15 David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.

Psalm 78:70-72 And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young, . . .

Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

Zechariah 13:5 But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is my example from my youth.

their trade hath been to feed cattle.

Genesis 46:34 You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our infancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have all shepherds in abomination.

Genesis 9:20 And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.

1 Kings 9:27 And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1 Kings 18:5,6 And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the horses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish. . . .

and they.

Genesis 45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, thy sheep, and thy herds, and all things that thou hast.

Context
Jacob Arrives in Egypt
31And Joseph said to his brethren, and to all his father's house: I will go up, and will tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren, and my father's house, that were in the land of Chanaan, are come to me: 32And the men are shepherds, and their occupation is to feed cattle; their flocks, and herds, and all they have, they have brought with them.33And when he shall call you, and shall say: What is your occupation?…
Cross References
Genesis 4:2
And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.

Genesis 46:31
And Joseph said to his brethren, and to all his father's house: I will go up, and will tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren, and my father's house, that were in the land of Chanaan, are come to me:

Genesis 46:33
And when he shall call you, and shall say: What is your occupation?

Genesis 46:31
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