1 S o Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

2 G od spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “ Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”

3 H e said, “ I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes.”

5 T hen Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

6 T hey took their livestock and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him:

7 h is sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt. Those Who Came to Egypt

8 N ow these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

9 T he sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.

10 T he sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

11 T he sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 T he 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 T he sons of Issachar: Tola and Puvvah and Iob and Shimron.

14 T he sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.

15 T hese are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

16 T he sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli.

17 T he sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

18 T hese are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.

19 T he sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

20 N ow 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 T he sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

22 T hese are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all.

23 T he sons of Dan: Hushim.

24 T he sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

25 T hese are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all.

26 A ll the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,

27 a nd the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

28 N ow he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

29 J oseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.

30 T hen Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

31 J oseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “ 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 a nd the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

33 W hen Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘ What is your occupation?’

34 y ou shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians.”