# Your servants are shepherds
"Your servants shepherd flocks"
# Your servants
Joseph's brothers refer to themselves as "your servants." This is a formal way of speaking to someone with more authority. This can be stated in first person. AT: "We, your servants" or "We" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-123person]])
# as our ancestors
"both we and our forefathers" or "both we and our ancestors"