| 1 | So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. |
| 2 | Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" And he said, "Here I am." |
| 3 | So He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of 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 put his hand on your eyes." |
| 5 | Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. |
| 6 | So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him. |
| 7 | His sons and his sons` sons, his daughters and his sons` daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt. |
| 8 | Now these were the names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben was Jacob`s firstborn. |
| 9 | The sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. |
| 10 | The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. |
| 11 | The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| 12 | The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. |
| 13 | The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron. |
| 14 | The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. |
| 15 | These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the persons, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three. |
| 16 | The sons of Gad were Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. |
| 17 | The sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel. |
| 18 | These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons. |
| 19 | The sons of Rachel, Jacob`s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin. |
| 20 | And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him. |
| 21 | The sons of Benjamin were Belah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. |
| 22 | These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons in all. |
| 23 | The son of Dan was Hushim. |
| 24 | The sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. |
| 25 | These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven persons in all. |
| 26 | All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob`s sons` wives, were sixty-six persons in all. |
| 27 | And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy. |
| 28 | Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen. |
| 29 | So Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. |
| 30 | And Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive." |
| 31 | Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father`s household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, `My brothers and those of my father`s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. |
| 32 | And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.` |
| 33 | So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, `What is your occupation?` |
| 34 | that you shall say, `Your servants` occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,` that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." |