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Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt

¹ So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to ^(a)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices ^(b)to the God of his father Isaac. ² And God spoke to Israel ^(c)in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am." ³ Then he said, "I am God, ^(d)the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will ^(e)make you into a great nation. ⁴ I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also ^(f)bring you up again, and ^(g)Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."

⁵ Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons ^(h)that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶ They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and ⁽ⁱ⁾came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him, ⁷ his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

^8 (j)Now ^(k)these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. ^(l)Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, ⁹ and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ¹⁰ The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. ¹¹ The sons of ^(m)Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² The sons of ⁽ⁿ⁾Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but ^(o)Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of ^(p)Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ^13 (q)The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron. ¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, ^(r)whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

¹⁶ The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. ^17 (s)The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ^18 (t)These are the sons of Zilpah, ^(u)whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons.

¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And ^(v)to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of ^(w)On, bore to him. ²¹ And ^(x)the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all.

²³ The son^[a] of Dan: Hushim. ^24 (y)The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. ^25 (z)These are the sons of Bilhah, ^(aa)whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all.

²⁶ All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all. ²⁷ And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. ^(ab)All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

Jacob and Joseph Reunited

²⁸ He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came ^(ac)into the land of Goshen. ²⁹ Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and ^(ad)fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. ³⁰ Israel said to Joseph, ^(ae)"Now let me die, 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, ^(af)"I 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 (ag)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 When Pharaoh calls you and says, ^(ah)‘What is your occupation?' ³⁴ you shall say, ^(ai)‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock ^(aj)from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell ^(ak)in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is ^(al)an abomination to the Egyptians."