46:1  So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

46:2  God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob. And he said, "Here I am.""

46:3  He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

46:4  "I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes."

46:5  Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

46:6  They took their livestock and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him:

46:7  his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

46:8  Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

46:9  The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.

46:10  The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

46:11  The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

46:12  The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

46:13  The sons of Issachar: Tola and Puvvah and Iob and Shimron.

46:14  The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.

46:15  These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all his sons and his daughters {numbered} thirty-three.

46:16  The sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli.

46:17  The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

46:18  These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.

46:19  The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

46:20  Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

46:21  The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

46:22  These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; {there were} fourteen persons in all.

46:23  The sons of Dan: Hushim.

46:24  The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

46:25  These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; {there were} seven persons in all.

46:26  All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob's sons, {were} sixty-six persons in all,

46:27  and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, {were} seventy.

46:28  Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out {the way} before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

46:29  Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.

46:30  Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

46:31  Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, `My brothers and my father's household, who {were} in the land of Canaan, have come to me;

46:32  and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'

46:33  "When Pharaoh calls you and says, `What is your occupation?'

46:34  you shall say, `Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians."