Genesis 46

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

2God said to Israel in visions of the night, "Jacob, Jacob." He said, "Here I am."

3He said, "I am God, God of your father. Do not fear going down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there."

4I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will certainly bring you up too, and Joseph will lay his hand on your eyes.

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

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

7He brought with him to Egypt his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his descendants.

8These are the names of Israel's sons who came to Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

9Reuben's sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

10Simeon's sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

11Levi's sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12Judah's sons were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; Perez's sons were Hezron and Hamul.

13Issachar's sons: Tola, Puah, Job, and Shimron.

14Zebulun's sons were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

15These were Leah's sons, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram, along with his daughter Dinah; all the persons—his sons and his daughters—numbered thirty-three.

16Gad's sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

17Asher's sons were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah; Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel.

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

19The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.

20Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On, bore to him.

21And Benjamin's sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

22These are the sons of Rachel born to Jacob: fourteen souls in all.

23Dan's sons were Hushim.

24Naphtali's sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore them to Jacob: seven persons in all.

26All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, those who came forth from his loins, excluding the wives of his sons, all the persons were sixty-six.

27Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt were two persons; all the persons of Jacob’s household who came to Egypt were seventy.

28He sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show him the way to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

29Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. He came before him, fell on his neck, and wept on his neck at length.

30Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, after seeing your face, since you are still alive."

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

32These men are shepherds, for they have been herdsmen, and they have brought their flocks, their cattle, and all that they have.

33It will happen when Pharaoh calls you and says, "What is your work?"

34You shall say, "Your servants have been cattlemen from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers," that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd of flocks is an abomination to the Egyptians.