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Jacob Moves to Egypt

¹ So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to ^(C1)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the ^(C2)God of his father Isaac.^2 (C1)God spoke to Israel ^(F1)in visions of the night and said, "^(C2)Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."³ 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 a great nation there.⁴ "^(C1)I will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(C2)I will also surely bring you up again; and ^(C3)Joseph will ^(F1)close 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 ^(C1)wagons 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 ^(C1)came to Egypt, Jacob and all his ^(F1)descendants with him:⁷ his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his ^(F1)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 and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.¹⁰ The ^(C1)sons of Simeon: ^(F1)Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and ^(F2)Jachin and ^(F3)Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.¹¹ The sons of Levi: ^(F1)Gershon, 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 ^(C1)sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.¹³ The sons of Issachar: Tola and ^(F1)Puvvah and ^(F2)Iob 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; ^(F1)all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.¹⁶ The ^(C1)sons of Gad: ^(F1)Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and ^(F2)Ezbon, Eri and ^(F3)Arodi and Areli.¹⁷ The ^(C1)sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the ^(C2)sons 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 (C1)Now 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 ^(C1)sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, ^(F1)Ehi and Rosh, ^(F2)Muppim and ^(F3)Huppim 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: ^(F1)Hushim.²⁴ The sons of Naphtali: ^(F1)Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and ^(F2)Shillem.²⁵ These are the ^(C1)sons of Bilhah, whom ^(C2)Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all.^26 (C1)All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, ^(F1)his 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 ^(F1)two; ^(C1)all 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 ^(C1)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.²⁹ Joseph ^(F1)prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared ^(F2)before him, he fell on his neck and ^(C1)wept 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, "^(C1)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 and the men are shepherds, for they have been ^(F1)keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'³³ "When Pharaoh calls you and says, '^(C1)What is your occupation?'³⁴ you shall say, 'Your servants have been ^(F1)(C1)keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' that you may ^(F2)live in the land of ^(C2)Goshen; for every shepherd is ^(F3)(C3)loathsome to the Egyptians."