³⁴ you should answer, ‘Your servants^(A) have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’^(B) Then you will be allowed to settle^(C) in the region of Goshen,^(D) for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.^(E)”

47 Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan^(A) and are now in Goshen.”^(B)

⁴ They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while,^(A) because the famine is severe in Canaan^(B) and your servants’ flocks have no pasture.^(C) So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”^(D)

⁶ and the land of Egypt is before you; settle^(A) your father and your brothers in the best part of the land.^(B) Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability,^(C) put them in charge of my own livestock.^(D)”

²⁷ Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen.^(A) They acquired property there^(B) and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.^(C)

⁸ besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household.^(A) Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.^(B)

²² “‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen,^(A) where my people live;^(B) no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know^(C) that I, the Lord, am in this land.

¹¹ So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land,^(A) the district of Rameses,^(B) as Pharaoh directed.

⁴¹ Joshua subdued them from Kadesh Barnea^(A) to Gaza^(B) and from the whole region of Goshen^(C) to Gibeon.