1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and
came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices
to the God of his father, Isaac.
2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the
night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
He said, “Here I am.”
3 He said, “I am God, the God of your
father. Don’t be afraid to go down into
Egypt, for there I will make of you a great
nation.
4 I will go down with you into Egypt.
I will also surely bring you up again.
Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the
sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father,
their little ones, and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry
him.
6 They took their livestock, and their
goods, which they had gotten in the land of
Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and
all his offspring with him,
7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him,
his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and
he brought all his offspring with him into
Egypt.
8 These are the names of the children of
Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his
sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi.
10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin,
Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of
a Canaanite woman.
11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari.
12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah,
Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in
the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were
Hezron and Hamul.
13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob,
and Shimron.
14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and
Jahleel.
15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she
bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his
daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons
and his daughters were thirty-three.
16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi,
Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah,
Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The
sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban
gave to Leah, his daughter, and these
she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife:
Joseph and Benjamin.
20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were
born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath,
the daughter of Potiphera, priest of
On, bore to him.
21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher,
Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim,
Huppim, and Ard.
22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were
born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni,
Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom
Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and
these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were
seven.
26 All the souls who came with Jacob into
Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in
addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls
were sixty-six.
27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to
him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls
of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt,
were seventy.
28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph,
to show the way before him to Goshen, and
they came into the land of Goshen.
29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went
up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He
presented himself to him, and fell on his
neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die,
since I have seen your face, that you are
still alive.”
31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his
father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with
Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers,
and my father’s house, who were in the
land of Canaan, have come to me.
32 These men are shepherds, for they
have been keepers of livestock, and they
have brought their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have.’
33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons
you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’
34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have
been keepers of livestock from our youth
even until now, both we, and our fathers:’
that you may dwell in the land of Goshen;
for every shepherd is an abomination to
the Egyptians.”
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