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 you will find me." |
46:3 He said, "I proclaim myself as God, the God of your father; do not fear 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 we identify as 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 we identify as 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 we identify as 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 we identify as 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 had become 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 we identify as the sons of Rachel, who had become born to Jacob; there numbered 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 we identify the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there numbered 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, numbered sixty-six persons in all, |
46:27 and the sons of Joseph, who had become born to him in Egypt numbered two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, numbered 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 still live." |
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 lived in the land of Canaan, have come to me; |
46:32 and the men serve as shepherds, for they have kept livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.' |
46:33 "When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What do you do for a living?' |
46:34 you shall say, 'Your servants have kept livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd appears loathsome to the Egyptians |