Feb.
15
Genesis
46
Gen
46:1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba,
and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Gen
46:2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said,
"Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."
Gen
46:3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be
afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great
nation.
Gen
46:4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring
you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
Gen
46:5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried
Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Gen
46:6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had
gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his
seed with him,
Gen
46:7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his
sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
Gen
46:8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into
Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Gen
46:9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Gen
46:10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and
Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Gen
46:11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Gen
46:12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er
and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron
and Hamul.
Gen
46:13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
Gen
46:14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
Gen
46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan
Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his
daughters were thirty-three.
Gen
46:16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and
Areli.
Gen
46:17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah
their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Gen
46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his
daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Gen
46:19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen
46:20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Gen
46:21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi,
Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Gen
46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the
souls were fourteen.
Gen
46:23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
Gen
46:24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Gen
46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his
daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Gen
46:26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his
direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were
sixty-six.
Gen
46:27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two
souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were
seventy.
Gen
46:28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him
to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Gen
46:29 Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his
father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck,
and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen
46:30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen
your face, that you are still alive."
Gen
46:31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I
will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers,
and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to
me.
Gen
46:32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of
livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and
all that they have.'
Gen
46:33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What
is your occupation?'
Gen
46:34 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of
livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:'
that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
abomination to the Egyptians."