1And Israel and everyone he had traveled and came to Beersheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. 2And God said to Israel in night visions, and He said, “Jacob, Jacob.”
And he said, “I’m here.”
3And He said, “I am God, your father’s God. Don’t be afraid of going down to Egypt, because I’ll make you into a big nation there. 4I shall go down with you to Egypt, and I shall also bring you up. And Joseph will set his hand on your eyes.”
5And Jacob got up from Beer-sheba. And the children of Israel carried Jacob, their father, and their infants and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6And they took their cattle and their property that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him. 7He brought his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters and all his seed with him to Egypt.
8And these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Jacob’s firstborn was Reuben. 9And Reuben’s sons were Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. 10And Simeon’s sons were Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Saul, the son of a Canaanite woman. “And Levi’s sons were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12And Judah’s sons were Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah. And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan, and Perez’s sons were Hezron and Hamul. 13And Issachar’s sons were Tola and Puvah and Job and Shimron. 14And Zebulun’s sons were Sered and Elon and Jahleel. 15These were the sons of Leah, to whom she gave birth for Jacob in Paddan Aram, and Dinah, his daughter, every person of his sons and his daughters, thirty-three. 16And Gad’s sons were Ziphion and Haggai and Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli. 17And Asher’s sons were Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah was their sister. And Beriah’s sons were Hever and Malchiel. 18These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and she gave birth to these for Jacob, sixteen persons. 19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin. 20And Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, to whom Asenath, daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, gave birth for him. 21And Benjamin’s sons were Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. 22These were Rachel’s sons, who were born to Jacob. All the persons were fourteen. 23And Dan’s sons: Hushim. 24And Naphtali’s sons were Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. 25These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and she gave birth to these for Jacob. All the persons were seven. 26All the persons of Jacob’s who came to Egypt, who came out from his thigh, outside of Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the persons were sixty-six. 27And Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of Jacob’s house who came to Egypt were seventy.
28And he sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to direct him in advance to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen. 29And Joseph hitched his chariot and went up to Israel, his father, at Goshen. And he appeared to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time. 30And Israel said to Joseph, “Let me die now after I’ve seen your face, that you’re still alive.”
3IAnd Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s house, “Let me go up and tell Pharaoh and say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s house that were in the land of Canaan have come to me. 32And the people are shepherds, because they were livestock people, and they’ve brought their flock and their oxen and all they have.’ 33And it will be, when Pharaoh will call you and say, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34that you’ll say, ‘Your servants were livestock people from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you’ll live in the land of Goshen, because any shepherd is an offensive thing to Egypt.”