Genesis 46:31-34
Gen 45:16-20, Gen 47:1-3; Acts 18:3; Heb 2:11 shepherds Gen 4:2, Gen 31:18, Gen 37:2, Gen 47:3; Exod 3:1; 1Sam 16:11, 1Sam 17:15; Ps 78:70-72; Isa 40:11; Zech 13:5 their trade hath been to feed cattle Heb. they are men of cattle, Gen 46:34, Gen 9:20; 1Kgs 9:27, 1Kgs 18:5-6 and they Gen 45:10 What is Gen 46:32, Gen 47:2-4; Jonah 1:8 Thy servants' Gen 46:32, Gen 30:35, Gen 34:5, Gen 37:12 for every From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call hycassos, or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians. Gen 43:32; Exod 8:26
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