Genesis 46

1verseIsrael traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

2verseGod spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

3verseHe 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.

4verseI will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”

5verseJacob 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.

6verseThey 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,

7versehis sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.

8verseThese are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

9verseThe sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

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

11verseThe sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12verseThe 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.

13verseThe sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

14verseThe sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

15verseThese 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.

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

17verseThe sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

18verseThese are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19verseThe sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

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

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

22verseThese are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

23verseThe son of Dan: Hushim.

24verseThe sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25verseThese are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

26verseAll 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.

27verseThe 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.

28verseJacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

29verseJoseph 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.

30verseIsrael said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

31verseJoseph 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.

32verseThese men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’

33verseIt will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’

34versethat 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.”