46:1 So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
46:2 And God spoke to Israel ①in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”
▷ ①Lit in the visions
46:3 Then He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
46:4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also assuredly bring you up again; and Joseph will ①close your eyes.”
▷ ①Lit put his hand on
46:5 Then Jacob left Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
46:6 They also took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his ①descendants with him:
▷ ①Lit seed
46:7 his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his ①descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
▷ ①Lit seed
46:8 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
46:9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
46:10 And the sons of Simeon: ①Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, ②Jachin, ③Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
▷ ①In Num 26:12 and 1 Chr 4:24, Nemuel ②In 1 Chr 4:24, Jarib ③In Num 26:13 and 1 Chr 4:24, Zerah
46:11 And the sons of Levi: ①Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
▷ ①In 1 Chr 6:16, Gershom
46:12 And the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
46:13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, ①Puvvah, ②Iob, and Shimron.
▷ ①In Num 26:23, Puvah; in 1 Chr 7:1, Puah ②In Num 26:24 and 1 Chr 7:1, Jashub
46:14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; ①all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
▷ ①Lit all the souls of
46:16 And the sons of Gad: ①Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, ②Ezbon, Eri, ③Arodi, and Areli.
▷ ①In Num 26:15, Zephon ②In Num 26:16, Ozni ③In Num 26:17, Arod
46:17 And the sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.
46:19 The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
46:20 Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
46:21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, ①Ehi, Rosh, ②Muppim, ③Huppim, and Ard.
▷ ①In Num 26:38, Ahiram ②In Num 26:39, Shephupham; in 1 Chr 7:12, Shuppim ③In Num 26:39, Hupham
46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all.
46:23 And the sons of Dan: ①Hushim.
▷ ①In Num 26:42, Shuham
46:24 And the sons of Naphtali: ①Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and ②Shillem.
▷ ①In 1 Chr 7:13, Jahziel ②In 1 Chr 7:13, Shallum
46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all.
46:26 All the people belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, ①his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,
▷ ①Lit who came out of his loins
46:27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were ①two; all the people of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.
▷ ①Lit two souls
46:28 Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to ①guide him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
▷ ①Lit instruct before him
46:29 And Joseph ①prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared to him, Joseph threw himself on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.
▷ ①Lit harnessed
46:30 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
46:31 But Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;
46:32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been ①keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
▷ ①Lit men
46:33 When Pharaoh calls for you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’
46:34 you shall say, ‘Your servants have been ①keepers of livestock since our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
▷ ①Lit men