| Chapter
46 |
| 1 | And
Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and
offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. |
| 2 | And God spake unto Israel in the visions
of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. |
| 3 | And he said, I am God, the God of thy
father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great
nation: |
| 4 | I will go down
with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph
shall put his hand upon thine eyes. |
|
5 | And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried
Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which
Pharaoh had sent to carry him. |
| 6
| And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in
the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: |
| 7 | His sons, and his sons'
sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought
he with him into Egypt. |
| 8 |
And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob
and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. |
| 9 | And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron,
and Carmi. |
| 10 | And the
sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul
the son of a Canaanitish woman. |
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11 | And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| 12 | And the sons of Judah; Er, and
Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. |
| 13 | And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and
Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. |
| 14
| And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. |
| 15 | These be the sons of Leah, which
she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of 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. |
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17 | And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, 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 these she bare unto Jacob, even
sixteen souls. |
| 19 | The
sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. |
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20 | And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On
bare unto him. |
| 21 | And
the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi,
and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. |
| 22 | These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob:
all the souls were fourteen. |
| 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, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare
these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. |
| 26 | All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which
came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were
threescore and six; |
| 27 |
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the
souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and
ten. |
| 28 | And he sent
Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came
into the land of Goshen. |
| 29 |
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father,
to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on
his neck a good while. |
| 30 |
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face,
because thou art yet alive. |
| 31
| And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will
go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house,
which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; |
|
32 | And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath
been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and
all that they have. |
| 33 |
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is
your occupation? |
| 34 | That
ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even
until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of
Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. |
