[1] And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba,
where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac. [2] And God said to
Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. [3] And he
said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for
I will make a great nation of you there: [4] I will go down with you to
Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph
will put his hands on your eyes. [5] Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba;
and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their
wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them. [6] And they took their
cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came
to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed: [7] His sons and his sons' sons, his
daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into
Egypt. [8] And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into
Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son; [9] And the
sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu 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 woman of Canaan; [11] And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and
Merari; [12] And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and
Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and
the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. [13] And the sons of Issachar:
Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron; [14] And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and
Elon and Jahleel; [15] All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were
the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were
thirty-three in number. [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
Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of
Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. [18] These are the children of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by
her. [19] The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. [20] And
Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the
daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On. [21] And the sons of Benjamin were
Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and
Huppim and Ard. [22] All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had
by her, fourteen persons. [23] And the son of Dan was Hushim. [24] And the
sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. [25] These were
the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven
persons. [26] All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring
of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of
Jacob's sons. [27] And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two.
Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt. [28] Now he had
sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came
to the land of Goshen. [29] And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to
Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put
his arms round his neck, weeping. [30] And Israel said to Joseph, Now that
I have seen you living again, I am ready for death. [31] And Joseph said to
his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to
Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land
of Canaan, have come to me; [32] And these men are keepers of sheep and
owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all
they have. [33] Now when Pharaoh sends for you and says, What is your
business? [34] You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle
from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be
able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep
are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.
