Genesis 46 · Clearspring

Jacob’s Journey to Egypt

¹And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba; and he offered sacrifices to theGod of his father Isaac.+ ²AndGod spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here am I.+ ³And he said, I amGod, theGod of thy father: fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation.+ ⁴I will go down with thee to Egypt, and I will also certainly bring thee up; and Joseph shall put his hand on thine eyes.+ ⁵And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, on the waggons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.+ ⁶And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him;+

Those Who Went to Egypt

Exodus 1:1–7

⁷his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt.+

The Children of Leah

⁸And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt: Jacob and his sons. Jacob's firstborn, Reuben.+ ⁹And the sons of Reuben: Enoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.+ ¹⁰— And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanitish woman.+ ¹¹— And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.+ ¹²— And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pherez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.+ ¹³— And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, and Job, and Shimron.+ ¹⁴— And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.+ ¹⁵— These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram; and his daughter, Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.+

The Children of Zilpah

¹⁶And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.+ ¹⁷— And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Jishvah, and Jishvi, 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 she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.+

The Children of Rachel

¹⁹The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.+ ²⁰And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asnath bore to him, the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On.+ ²¹— And the sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.+ ²²— These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.+

The Children of Bilhah

²³And 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, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls were seven.+ ²⁶All the souls that came with Jacob to Egypt, that had come out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives: all the souls were sixty-six.+ ²⁷And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob that came to Egypt were seventy.+

Jacob Arrives in Egypt

²⁸And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to give notice before he came to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen.+ ²⁹Then Joseph yoked his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and he presented himself to him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.+ ³⁰And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, after I have seen thy face, since thou still livest.+ ³¹And Joseph said to his brethren and to his father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brethren and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come to me;+ ³²and the men are shepherds, for they have been occupied with cattle; and they have brought their sheep, and their cattle, and all that they have.+ ³³And it shall come to pass that when Pharaoh shall call you and say, What is your occupation?+ ³⁴then ye shall say, Thy servants are men that have been occupied with cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers; in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.+