6 So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, aJacob and all his descendants with him.
7 His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
8 Now athese were the names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: bReuben was Jacob’s firstborn.
9 The asons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
10aThe sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
11 The sons of aLevi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 The sons of aJudah werebEr, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). cThe sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.
14 The asons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These were the asons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the persons, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three.
16 The sons of Gad were1 Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
17aThe sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel.
18aThese were the sons of Zilpah, bwhom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons.
19 The asons of Rachel, bJacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.
20aAnd to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.
21aThe sons of Benjamin were Belah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, bEhi, Rosh, cMuppim, Huppim, and Ard.
22 These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons in all.
24aThe sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
25aThese were the sons of Bilhah, bwhom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven persons in all.
26aAll the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, bbesides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all.
27 And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. aAll the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.
Jacob Settles in Goshen
28 Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, ato point out before him theway to Goshen. And they came bto the land of Goshen.
29 So Joseph made ready his achariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and bfell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
These are the names of the children of Israel - It may be necessary to observe here, First, that several of these names are expressed differently elsewhere, Jemuel for Nemuel, Jachin for Jarib, Gershon for Gershom, etc.; compare Numbers 26:12; I Chronicles 4:24. But it is no uncommon case for the same person to have different names, or the same name to be differently pronounced; See Clarke on Genesis 25:18 (note). Secondly, that it is probable that some names in this list are brought in by prolepsis or anticipation, as the persons were born (probably) during the seventeen years which Jacob sojourned in Egypt, see Genesis 46:12. Thirdly, that the families of some are entered more at large than others because of their peculiar respectability, as in the case of Judah, Joseph, and Benjamin; but see the tables under Genesis 46:20.
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