1 Israel left with everything that belonged to it. When he arrived at Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of Isaac, his father.
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2 And God spoke to Israel through a night vision: “Jacob! Jacob! “Here I am,” he replied.
3 “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.
4 I myself will go down to Egypt with you and will certainly bring you back. And the hand of Joseph will close his eyes. “
5 So Jacob departed from Beersheba. The children of Israel took their father Jacob, his sons and their wives in the chariots that Pharaoh had sent.
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6 They also took their flocks and the goods they had acquired in Canaan. So Jacob went to Egypt with all his descendants.
7 He took with him to Egypt his sons, his grandchildren, his daughters and his granddaughters, that is, all his descendants.
8 These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his descendants, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's eldest son.
9 These were the sons of Reuben: Enoch, Palu, Hezron and Carmi.
10 These were the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Oad, Jachin, Zoar and Saul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
11 These were the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
12 These were the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. These were the sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
13 These were the sons of Issachar: Tollah, Puah, Jashub and Shinrom.
14 These were the sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon and Jaleel.
15 These were the children that Leah gave Jacob in Paddan-Aram, in addition to her daughter Dinah. His descendants were thirty-three in total.
16 These were the sons of Gad: Zephon, Hagi, Sunni, Eshbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.
17 These were the sons of Asher: Imna, Isvah, Isvi, and Beriah, and their sister Sera. These were the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.
18 These were the sixteen descendants that Zilpah, the servant that Laban had given to his daughter Leah, gave to Jacob.
19 These were the sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 Asenath, daughter of Potifera, priest of On, bore Joseph two sons in Egypt: Manasseh and Ephraim.
21 These were the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Bequer, Asbel, Gera, Naaman, Ei, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Arde.
22 These were the fourteen descendants that Rachel gave to Jacob.
23 Dan's son was Hushim.
24 These were the sons of Naphtali: Jazeel, Guni, Jezer and Shilehem.
25 These were the seven descendants that Bilhah, the servant that Laban had given to his daughter Rachel, gave to Jacob.
26 All those who went to Egypt with Jacob, all his descendants, not counting his sons' wives, totaled sixty-six people.
27 With the two sons born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt numbered seventy.
28 Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to find out how to go to Goshen. When they arrived there,
29 Joseph, with his chariot ready, left for Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as he saw him, he ran to hug him and, hugging him, cried for a long time.
30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now I can die, because I have seen your face and I know that you are still alive.”
31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and all his father's family, “I am going to go and tell Pharaoh that my brothers and all my father's family, who lived in Canaan, have come here.
32 I will say that the men are shepherds, they take care of flocks, and they brought with them their sheep, their oxen and everything that belongs to them.
33 When Pharaoh sends for them and asks: 'What do you work at? ',
34 answer him like this: 'Your servants raised flocks from a young age, as our ancestors did.' In this way they will be allowed to live in the region of Goshen, since all shepherds are despised by the Egyptians.”
