6069. Verses 2-6. And from among his brethren he took five men, and set them before Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What are your works? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are a shepherd of the flock, both we and our fathers. And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land have we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants’ flock; for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan; and now I pray let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee; the land of Egypt before thee is it; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren dwell; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if thou knowest, and there be among them, men of activity, then set them as princes over my cattle. “And from among his brethren he took five men,” signifies from the truths of the church some; “and set them before Pharaoh,” signifies insinuation into memory-knowledges; “and Pharaoh said unto his brethren,” signifies a perception about the truths of the church in the natural; “What are your works?” signifies about services and uses; “and they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are a shepherd of the flock,” signifies that they lead to good; “both we and our fathers,” signifies that this is so from the ancients; “and they said unto Pharaoh,” signifies continuance of perception; “To sojourn in the land have we come,” signifies to seek life in memory-knowledges; “for there is no pasture for thy servants’ flock,” signifies that memory-knowledges are wanting in which are goods of truth; “for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan,” signifies that there is a lack of such things in the church; “and now I pray let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen,” signifies that they may live in the midst of them; “and Pharaoh said unto Joseph, saying,” signifies perception in the natural where memory-knowledges are; “Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee,” signifies with respect to the influx of the internal celestial into spiritual good from the natural, and into the truths of the church there; “the land of Egypt before thee is it,” signifies that the memory-knowledges of the natural mind are under the auspices of the internal celestial; “in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren dwell,” signifies that they should live in the inmost of these; “let them dwell in the land of Goshen,” signifies where is the midst; “and if thou knowest, and there be among them, men of activity,” signifies the more excellent things in doctrine; “then set them as princes over my cattle,” signifies that they may be the primary things of memory-knowledges.