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Genesis 46
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Jacob and His Family Go to Egypt

46Jacob packed up all he had and went to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.H3478H5265H935H884H2076H2077H430H1H3327
2God spoke to him in a vision at night and called, "Jacob, Jacob!" "Yes, here I am," he answered.H430H559H3478H4759H3915H559H3290H3290H559
3"I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go to Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there.H559H410H430H1H3372H3381H4714H7760H1419H1471
4I will go with you to Egypt, and I will bring your descendants back to this land. Joseph will be with you when you die."H3381H4714H5927H5927H3130H7896H3027H5869
5Jacob set out from Beersheba. His sons put him, their small children, and their wives in the wagons which the king of Egypt had sent.H3290H6965H884H1121H3478H5375H3290H1H2945H802H5699H6547H7971H5375
6They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him:H3947H4735H7399H7408H776H3667H935H4714H3290H2233
7his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters.H1121H1121H1121H1323H1121H1323H2233H935H4714
8The members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt with him were his oldest son ReubenH8034H1121H3478H935H4714H3290H1121H7205H3290H1060
9and Reuben's sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.H1121H7205H2585H6396H2696H3756
10Simeon and his sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.H1121H8095H3223H3226H161H3199H6714H7586H1121H3669
11Levi and his sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.H1121H3878H1648H6955H4847
12Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.H1121H3063H6147H209H7956H6557H2226H6147H209H4191H776H3667H1121H6557H2696H2538
13Issachar and his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.H1121H3485H8439H6312H3102H8110
14Zebulun and his sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.H1121H2074H5624H356H3177
15These are the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides his daughter Dinah. In all, his descendants by Leah numbered thirty-three.H1121H3812H3205H3290H6307H1323H1783H5315H1121H1323H7970H7969
16Gad and his sons: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arod, and Areli.H1121H1410H6837H2291H7764H675H6179H722H692
17Asher and his sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel.H1121H836H3232H3438H3440H1283H8294H269H1121H1283H2268H4439
18These sixteen are the descendants of Jacob by Zilpah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah.H1121H2153H3837H5414H3812H1323H3205H3290H6240H8337H5315
19Jacob's wife Rachel bore him two sons: Joseph and Benjamin.H1121H7354H3290H802H3130H1144
20In Egypt Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, by Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in Heliopolis.H3130H776H4714H3205H4519H669H621H1323H6319H3548H204H3205
21Benjamin's sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.H1121H1144H1106H1071H788H1617H5283H278H7220H4649H2650H714
22These fourteen are the descendants of Jacob by Rachel.H1121H7354H3205H3290H5315H702H6240
23Dan and his son Hushim.H1121H1835H2366
24Naphtali and his sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.H1121H5321H3183H1476H3337H8006
25These seven are the descendants of Jacob by Bilhah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel.H1121H1090H3837H5414H7354H1323H3205H3290H5315H7651
26The total number of the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not including his sons' wives.H5315H935H3290H4714H3318H3409H3290H1121H802H5315H8346H8337
27Two sons were born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to seventy the total number of Jacob's family who went there.H1121H3130H3205H4714H8147H5315H5315H1004H3290H935H4714H7657

Jacob and His Family in Egypt

28Jacob sent Judah ahead to ask Joseph to meet them in Goshen. When they arrived,H7971H3063H6440H3130H3384H6440H1657H935H776H1657
29Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms around his father's neck and cried for a long time.H3130H631H4818H5927H7125H3478H1H1657H7200H5307H6677H1058H6677H5750
30Jacob said to Joseph, "I am ready to die, now that I have seen you and know that you are still alive."H3478H559H3130H6471H4191H310H7200H6440H5750H2416
31Then Joseph said to his brothers and the rest of his father's family, "I must go and tell the king that my brothers and all my father's family, who were living in Canaan, have come to me.H3130H559H251H1H1004H5927H5046H6547H559H251H1H1004H776H3667H935
32I will tell him that you are shepherds and take care of livestock and that you have brought your flocks and herds and everything else that belongs to you.H582H7462H6629H4735H935H6629H1241
33When the king calls for you and asks what your occupation is,H6547H7121H559H4639
34be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen." Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds.H559H5650H582H4735H5271H1H3427H776H1657H7462H6629H8441H4714


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