Genesis 47:4
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
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Context
2 And he took some of his brethren, five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, your servants shepherds, both we, also our fathers.
4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, your father and your brethren are come unto you:
6 The land of Egypt before you; in the best of the land make your father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you knowest men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.