1
And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to
Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3 And HE said, I
am God, the God of thy father:fear not to go down into Egypt; for I
will there make of thee a great nation:4 I will go down with thee into
Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again:and Joseph shall put
his hand upon thine eyes.
5 And
Jacob rose up from Beersheba:and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their
father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which
Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their
goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt,
Jacob, and all his seed with him:7 His sons, and his sons 'sons with
him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he
with him into Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons:Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 And the sons of Judah;
Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah:but Er and Onan died in
the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
14 And the sons of Zebulun;
Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These be the sons of Leah, which she
bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah:all the souls of
his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
17 And the sons of Asher;
Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister:and
the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of
Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto
Jacob, even sixteen souls.
19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
20
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
21
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and
Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the
sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob:all the souls were fourteen.
23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali;
Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25 These are the sons of
Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these
unto Jacob:all the souls were seven.
26
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his
loins, besides Jacob's sons 'wives, all the souls were threescore and
six; 27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two
souls:all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. (70)
28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his
father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his
neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
31
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will
go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's
house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; 32 And the
men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they
have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
33
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say,
What is your occupation? 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath
been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our
fathers:that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.