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¹ So Israel brake up, with all that he had, and came in to Beer-sheba, - and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.² And God said to Israel in the visions of the night, and he said - Jacob! Jacob!³ And he said - Behold me! And he said: I, am GOD himself, the God of thy father, - Be not afraid of going down to Egypt, seeing that for a great nation, will I plant thee there.⁴ I will go down with thee to Egypt, and will bring thee up, yea wholly up, - and, Joseph, shall lay his own hand upon thine eyes.

⁵ So Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba, - and the sons of Israel brought Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharaoh had sent to bring him;⁶ and they took their cattle and the gains which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, - Jacob and all his seed with him:⁷ his sons, and his son's sons with him, his daughters, and his sons daughters, and all his seed, brought he with him into Egypt.⁸ Now, these, are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt - Jacob and his sons, - the firstborn of Jacob, Reuben:⁹ And, the sons of Reuben, - Hanoch and Pallu, and Hezron and Carmi;¹⁰ And, the sons of Simeon, - Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar, - and Shaul, son of the Canaanitess;¹¹ And the sons of Levi, - Gershon, Kohath and Merari;¹² And 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 sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul;¹³ And, the sons of Issachar, - Tola and Puvah, and Iob and Shimron;¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulon, - Sered and Elon, and Jahleel.¹⁵ These, are the sons of Leah whom she bare to Jacob in Padan-aram, with Dinah also his daughter, - All the souls of his sons and of his daughters, were thirty-three.¹⁶ And, the sons of Gad, - Zaphon and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, - Eri and Arodi and Areli;¹⁷ And, the sons of Asher, - Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister, - and the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel.¹⁸ These, are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, - so she bare these to Jacob, - sixteen souls.¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, - Joseph and Benjamin;²⁰ And there were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, bare to him,: Manasseh and Ephraim;²¹ And the sons of Benjamin - Bela and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Resh, - Muppim and Huppim, and Ard.²² These, are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob, - all the souls, were fourteen.²³ And, the sons of Dan, - Hushim;²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali, - Jahzeel and Guni, and Jezer and Shillem.²⁵ These, are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, - so she bare these to Jacob, - all the souls, were seven.²⁶ All the souls that came in with Jacob to Egypt that had come forth of his loins, besides Jacob's sons wives, - all the souls, were sixty-six;²⁷ and, the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: All the souls of the house of Jacob that came into Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ And he sent, Judah, before him unto Joseph, to direct his face to Goshen, - so they came in towards the land of Goshen.²⁹ Then yoked Joseph his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father towards Goshen, - and he appeared unto him, and fell upon his neck, and wept upon his neck a good while.³⁰ Then said Israel unto Joseph I am ready to die at last, - now that I have seen thy face, in that thou art, yet alive.³¹ Then said Joseph unto his brethren and unto the house of his father, I must go up, and must tell Pharaoh - and must say unto him, My brethren, and the house of my father, who were in the land of Canaan, have come in unto me.³² Now, the men, are feeders of flocks, for men of cattle, they are, - and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have they brought in.³³ So shall it come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call for you, - and shall say - What is your occupation?³⁴ Then shall ye say - Men of cattle, have thy servants been from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers, - To the end ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for an abomination to Egyptians, is every feeder of a flock,