Genesis 46 (New American Standard)

Jacob Moves to Egypt

1 So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to ¹Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the ²God of his father Isaac. 2 ³God spoke to Israel ^ain visions of the night and said, "⁴Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am." 3 He said, "⁵I am God, the God of your father ; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will ⁶make you a great nation there. 4 "⁷I will go down with you to Egypt, and ⁸I will also surely bring you up again ; and ⁹Joseph will ^bclose your eyes." 5 Then Jacob arose from Beersheba ; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the ¹⁰wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 They took their livestock and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and ¹¹came to Egypt, Jacob and all his ^cdescendants with him: 7 his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters , and all his ^ddescendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Those Who Came to Egypt

8 Now these are the ¹²names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt : Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9 The sons of Reuben : Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. 10 The ¹³sons of Simeon : ^eJemuel and Jamin and Ohad and ^fJachin and ^gZohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. 11 The sons of Levi : ^hGershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 The sons of Judah : Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan ). And the ¹⁴sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 The sons of Issachar : Tola and ⁱPuvvah and ^jIob and Shimron. 14 The sons of Zebulun : Sered and Elon and Jahleel. 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah ; ^kall his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three . 16 The ¹⁵sons of Gad : ^lZiphion and Haggi, Shuni and ^mEzbon, Eri and ⁿArodi and Areli. 17 The ¹⁶sons of Asher : Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the ¹⁷sons of Beriah : Heber and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah ; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons. 19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel : Joseph and Benjamin. 20 ¹⁸Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. 21 The ¹⁹sons of Benjamin : Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, ^oEhi and Rosh, ^pMuppim and ^qHuppim and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob ; there were fourteen persons in all. 23 The sons of Dan : ^rHushim. 24 The sons of Naphtali : ^sJahzeel and Guni and Jezer and ^tShillem. 25 These are the ²⁰sons of Bilhah, whom ²¹Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob ; there were seven persons in all. 26 ²²All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, ^uhis direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob's sons, were sixty-six persons in all, 27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were ^vtwo ; ²³all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy. 28 Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to ²⁴Goshen ; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 Joseph ^wprepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel ; as soon as he appeared ^xbefore him, he fell on his neck and ²⁵wept on his neck a long time. 30 Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive." 31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "²⁶I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me; 32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been ^ykeepers of livestock ; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.' 33 "When Pharaoh calls you and says, '²⁷What is your occupation ?' 34 you shall say, 'Your servants have been ^z28keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' that you may ^aalive in the land of ²⁹Goshen ; for every shepherd is ^bb30loathsome to the Egyptians."