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Jacob Moves to Egypt

¹ So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to ^(C1)Beersheba where both his father and grandfather had worshiped God, and offered sacrifices to the ^(C2)God of his father Isaac. ^(VR1)2 (C1)And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "^(C2)Jacob, Jacob!" And he said, "Here I am."³ And He said, "^(C1)I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will ^(C2)make you (your descendants) a great nation there.⁴ "^(C1)I will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(C2)I will also surely bring you (your people) up again; and ^(C3)Joseph will put his hand on your eyes to close them at the time of your death."

⁵ So Jacob set out from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the ^(C1)wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.⁶ And they took their livestock and the possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan and ^(C1)came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.⁷ His sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Those Who Came to Egypt

⁸ Now these are the ^(C1)names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.⁹ The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.¹⁰ The ^(C1)sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.¹¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.¹² The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah—but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the ^(C1)sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.¹³ The sons of Issachar: Tola, ^(F1)Puvah, ^(F2)Job, and Shimron.¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all of his sons and daughters numbered thirty-three.¹⁶ The ^(C1)sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.¹⁷ The ^(C1)sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the ^(C2)sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, the maid whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter when she married Jacob; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons two sons and fourteen grandchildren.¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.^20 (C1)Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On (Heliopolis in Egypt), bore to him.²¹ And the ^(C1)sons of ^(F1)Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all two sons and twelve grandchildren.²³ The son of Dan: Hushim.²⁴ The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.²⁵ These are the ^(C1)sons of Bilhah, the maid whom ^(C2)Laban gave to Rachel his daughter when she married Jacob. And she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all two sons and five grandchildren.^26 (C1)All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt—who were his direct descendants, not counting the wives of Jacob or Jacob's sons, were sixty-six persons in all,²⁷ and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. ^(C1)All the persons of the house of Jacob including Jacob, and ^(F1)Joseph and his sons, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ Now Jacob (Israel) sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to direct him to ^(C1)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.²⁹ Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen; as soon as he presented himself before him (authenticating his identity), he fell on his father's neck and ^(C1)wept on his neck a very long time.³⁰ And Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die in peace, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."³¹ Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "^(C1)I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and 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 keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'³³ "And it shall be that when Pharaoh calls you and says, '^(C1)What is your occupation?'³⁴ you shall say, 'Your servants have been ^(C1)keepers of livestock from our youth until now, both we and our fathers before us,' in order that you may live separately and securely in the land of ^(C2)Goshen; for every shepherd is ^(C3)repulsive to the Egyptians."