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

Contemporary English Version
who asked them, "What do you do for a living?" "Sir, we are shepherds," was their answer. "Our families have always raised sheep.

New American Bible
When Pharaoh asked them, “What is your occupation?” they answered, “We, your servants, like our ancestors, are shepherds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We, thy servants, are shepherds, both we and our fathers.

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

What is.

Genesis 46:33,34 And when he shall call you, and shall say: What is your occupation? . . .

Amos 7:14,15 But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom. . . .

Jonah 1:8 And they said every one to his fellow: Come and let us cast lots, that we may know why this evil is upon us. And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

shepherds.

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