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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 And ^(C1)God spoke to Israel ^(F1)in visions of the night and said, "^(C2)Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."³ Then 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 into a great nation there.⁴ "^(C1)I will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(C2)I will also assuredly bring you up again; and ^(C3)Joseph will ^(F1)close your eyes."

⁵ Then Jacob left 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 also took their livestock and their possessions, 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 who went to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.¹⁰ And the ^(C1)sons of Simeon: ^(F1)Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, ^(F2)Jachin, ^(F3)Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.¹¹ And the sons of Levi: ^(F1)Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.¹² And 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 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, ^(F1)Puvvah, ^(F2)Iob, and Shimron.¹⁴ And 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; ^(F1)all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.¹⁶ And the ^(C1)sons of Gad: ^(F1)Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, ^(F2)Ezbon, Eri, ^(F3)Arodi, and Areli.¹⁷ And the ^(C1)sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, 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 And the ^(C1)sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, ^(F1)Ehi, Rosh, ^(F2)Muppim, ^(F3)Huppim, and Ard.²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all.²³ And the sons of Dan: ^(F1)Hushim.²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: ^(F1)Jahzeel, Guni, 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 people 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 people of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to ^(F1)guide him to ^(C1)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.²⁹ And Joseph ^(F1)prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared to him, Joseph threw himself 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 But 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 for you and says, '^(C1)What is your occupation?'³⁴ you shall say, 'Your servants have been ^(F1)(C1)keepers of livestock since our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' so that you may live in the land of ^(C2)Goshen; for every shepherd is an ^(C3)abomination to the Egyptians."