Genesis 46:3-34 ▼

3 And He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not fear from going down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up, and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.”

5 And Jacob arose from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

6 And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him,

7 his sons, and the sons of his sons with him, and his daughters, and the daughters of his sons, and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt.

8 And these are the names of the sons of Israel, the ones coming to 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; and 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 Job, and Shimron.

14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, and together with Dinah his daughter. All the souls, his sons and his daughters, were thirty and three.

16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, 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, and she bore these to Jacob—six and ten souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

20 And there were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him: Manasseh and Ephraim.

21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob—four and ten souls in all.

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, and she bore these to Jacob—seven souls in all.

26 All the souls—the ones coming to Jacob, to Egypt, the ones coming out of his thigh, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob—were sixty and six souls in all.

27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, the ones coming to Egypt, were seventy.

28 And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct before him to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.

29 And Joseph harnessed his chariot, and he went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father, and he appeared to him, and he fell on his necks, and he wept on his necks a long time.

30 And Israel said to Joseph, “Let me die now, after my seeing your face, for you are still alive.”

31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to the house of his father, “I will go up and let me tell Pharaoh and let me say to him, ‘My brothers and the house of my father, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32 And the men are shedherds of sheep, for they have been men of livestock; and their flocks and their herds and all that is theirs, they have brought.’

33 And it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you? and says, ‘What are your? works?’

34 That you? shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth and even until now, both we and also our fathers,’ so that you? may dwell in the land of Goshen. For an abomination of Egypt is every shepherd of sheep.”