GE-46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and
came to
Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father
Isaac.
GE-46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night,
and said,
Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here [am] I.
GE-46:3 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:
GE-46:4 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.
GE-46:5 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.
GE-46:6 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:
GE-46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters,
and his sons'
daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
GE-46:8 And these [are] the names of the children of Israel,
which came into
Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
GE-46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron,
and Carmi.
GE-46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad,
and Jachin, and
Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
GE-46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
GE-46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and
Pharez, and
Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons
of Pharez were
Hezron and Hamul.
GE-46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job,
and Shimron.
GE-46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
GE-46:15 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.
GE-46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and
Ezbon, Eri, and
Arodi, and Areli.
GE-46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui,
and Beriah, and
Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
GE-46:18 These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to
Leah his
daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen souls.
GE-46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
GE-46:20 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.
GE-46:21 And the sons of Benjamin [were] Belah, and Becher, and
Ashbel, Gera,
and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
GE-46:22 These [are] the sons of Rachel, which were born to
Jacob: all the
souls [were] fourteen.
GE-46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
GE-46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer,
and Shillem.
GE-46:25 These [are] the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto
Rachel his
daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls [were]
seven.
GE-46:26 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;
GE-46:27 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.
GE-46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct
his face unto
Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
GE-46:29 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.
GE-46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I
have seen thy
face, because thou [art] yet alive.
GE-46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his
father's house, I
will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and
my father's
house, which [were] in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
GE-46:32 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.
GE-46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you,
and shall
say, What [is] your occupation?
GE-46:34 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.
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