They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.Īnd Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.Īnd he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.Īnd Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. It contains, according to the usual computation, the history of about two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine. as designating its character, because it gives an account of the origin of all things. It is generally known among Christians by the name of Genesis, i.e., "creation" or "generation," being the name given to it in the LXX. The first book of the Pentateuch (q.v.) is called by the Jews Bereshith, i.e., "in the beginning", because this is the first word of the book.
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