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Genesis 46

¹Jacob packed up all he had and went to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

²God spoke to him in a vision at night and called, "Jacob, Jacob!" "Yes, here I am,"he answered.

³"I am God, the God of your father,"he said. "Do not be afraid to go to Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there.

⁴I will go with you to Egypt, and I will bring your descendants back to this land. Joseph will be with you when you die."

⁵Jacob set out from Beersheba. His sons put him, their small children, and their wives in the wagons which the king of Egypt had sent.

⁶They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him:

⁷his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters.

⁸The members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt with him were his oldest son Reuben

⁹and Reuben's sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

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

¹¹Levi and his sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

¹²Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.

¹³Issachar and his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.

¹⁴Zebulun and his sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

¹⁵These are the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides his daughter Dinah. In all, his descendants by Leah numbered thirty-three.

¹⁶Gad and his sons: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arod, and Areli.

¹⁷Asher and his sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel.

¹⁸These sixteen are the descendants of Jacob by Zilpah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah.

¹⁹Jacob's wife Rachel bore him two sons: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁰In Egypt Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, by Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in Heliopolis.

²¹Benjamin's sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

²²These fourteen are the descendants of Jacob by Rachel.

²³Dan and his son Hushim.

²⁴Naphtali and his sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

²⁵These seven are the descendants of Jacob by Bilhah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel.

²⁶The total number of the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not including his sons' wives.

²⁷Two sons were born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to seventy the total number of Jacob's family who went there.

²⁸Jacob sent Judah ahead to ask Joseph to meet them in Goshen. When they arrived,

²⁹Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms around his father's neck and cried for a long time.

³⁰Jacob said to Joseph, "I am ready to die, now that I have seen you and know that you are still alive."

³¹Then Joseph said to his brothers and the rest of his father's family, "I must go and tell the king that my brothers and all my father's family, who were living in Canaan, have come to me.

³²I will tell him that you are shepherds and take care of livestock and that you have brought your flocks and herds and everything else that belongs to you.

³³When the king calls for you and asks what your occupation is,

³⁴be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen." Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds.