Genesis 46

Jacob’s Journey to Egypt

46So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to ^aBeersheba, and offered sacrifices ^bto the God of his father Isaac. ²Then God spoke to Israel ^cin the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

³So He said, “I am God, ^dthe God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will ^emake of you a great nation there. ^4fI will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely ^gbring you up again; and ^hJoseph ¹will put his hand on your eyes.”

⁵Then ⁱJacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the ²carts ^jwhich Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, ^kJacob and all his descendants with him. ⁷His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

⁸Now ^lthese were the names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: ^mReuben was Jacob’s firstborn. ⁹The ⁿsons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ^10oThe sons of Simeon were ³Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, ⁴Jachin, ⁵Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. ¹¹The sons of ^pLevi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹²The sons of ^qJudah were ^rEr, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). ^sThe sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³The sons of Issachar were Tola, ⁶Puvah, ⁷Job, and Shimron. ¹⁴The ^tsons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. ¹⁵These were the ^usons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the persons, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three.

¹⁶The sons of Gad were ⁸Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, ⁹Ezbon, Eri, ¹Arodi, and Areli. ^17vThe sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel. ^18wThese were the sons of Zilpah, ^xwhom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons.

¹⁹The ^ysons of Rachel, ^zJacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin. ^20aAnd to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him. ^21bThe sons of Benjamin were Belah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, ^cEhi, Rosh, ^dMuppim, ²Huppim, and Ard. ²²These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons in all.

²³The son of Dan was ³Hushim. ^24eThe sons of Naphtali were ⁴Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and ⁵Shillem. ^25fThese were the sons of Bilhah, ^gwhom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven persons in all.

^26hAll the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, ⁱbesides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all. ²⁷And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. ^jAll the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.

Jacob Settles in Goshen

²⁸Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, ^kto point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came ^lto the land of Goshen. ²⁹So Joseph made ready his ^mchariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and ⁿfell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

³⁰And Israel said to Joseph, ^o“Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.”

³¹Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, ^p“I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. ³²And the men are ^qshepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.’ ³³So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ^r‘What is your occupation?’ ³⁴that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ ^soccupation has been with livestock ^tfrom our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is ^uan ⁶abomination to the Egyptians.”