Genesis 46

Then Israel set out and all that {belonged} to him. Then he came to Beersheba, and he sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” And he said, “Behold me.”

And he said, “I {am} God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, because I will make you into a great nation there.

I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also surely bring you up. And Joseph will put his hand over your eyes.” \*

Then Jacob got up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. Then they came to Egypt, Jacob and all of his offspring with him,

his sons and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters and his sons’ daughters. So all his offspring he brought with him to Egypt. \*

Now these {are} the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: the firstborn of Jacob {was} Reuben.

And the sons of Reuben {were} Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.

And the sons of Simeon {were} Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

And the sons of Levi {were} Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. \*

And the sons of Judah {were} Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah, but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

And the sons of Issachar {were} Tola and Puvah and Job and Shimron.

And the sons of Zebulun {were} Sered and Elon and Jahleel.

Those {were} the sons of Leah, whom she bore for Jacob in Paddan Aram, and Dinah his daughter. All the souls of his sons and his daughters {were} thirty-three. \*

And the sons of Gad {were} Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli.

And the sons of Asher {were} Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah {were} Heber and Malkiel.

Those {were} the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to Leah his daughter. And she bore those sixteen souls for Jacob. \*

The sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob, {were} Joseph and Benjamin.

And Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore for him.

And the sons of Benjamin {were} Bela and Beker and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

Those {were} the sons of Rachel, whom she bore for Jacob; all the souls {were} fourteen. \*

And the sons of Dan {were} Hushim.

And the sons of Naphtali {were} Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

Those {were} the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban had given to Rachel his daughter. And she bore those for Jacob; all the souls {were} seven. \*

All the souls who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came out of his thigh, apart from the wives of Jacob’s sons; all the souls {were} sixty-six.

And the sons of Joseph who were born for him in Egypt {were} two souls. All the souls {belonging} to the house of Jacob who went to Egypt {were} seventy. \*

And he sent Judah before him to Joseph to show {the way} before him to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.

Then Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. And he appeared to him, and he fell on his neck and cried on his neck a long time.

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now I can die, since I have seen your face, that you {are} still alive!” \*

Then Joseph said to his brothers and to the household of his father, “I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him, ‘My brothers and the household of my father who {were living} in the land of Canaan have come to me.

And the men {are} herders of sheep, for they are livestock men, and they have brought their flock{s} and their herd{s} and everything that {belongs} to them.’ \*

Then it will be, when Pharaoh calls for you and says, ‘What {is} your work?’

then you should say, ‘Your servants have been livestock men from our youth and until now, both we {and} also our fathers,’ so that you can settle in the land of Goshen, because every herder of sheep {is} an abomination {to} Egyptians.” \*