Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 47:6

6 The land of Egypt is before thee , in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell, in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any man of activity amongst them, then make them rulers over my Cattle.

To view it and take thy choice where thou pleasest, it is in thy power. See Gen. 13. 9.

Or, of strength or vigour of body and mind, fit for the employment. By which expression it seems probable that those five presented to Pharaoh were of the meanest sort of them. See on ver. 2.