Genesis Chapter 46

Genesis Chapter 46
1 Then Israel took his journey with all
that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and
offered sacrifice unto the God of his
father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in a vision
by night, saying, Jacob, Jacob. Who
answered, I am here.
3 Then 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 bring thee up again, and
Joseph shall put his hand upon thine
eyes.
5 Then Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba:
and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their
father, and their children, and their
wives in the chariots, 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, both
Jacob and all his seed with him, 7 His
sons and his son’s sons with him, his
daughters and his son’s 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, even Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob’s firstborn. 9 And the sons of
Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, 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.
11 Also the sons of Levi: Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
12 Also the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan,
and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah: (but
Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan)
And the sons of
Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 Also the sons of Issachar: Tola, and
Puah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 Also the
sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and
Jahleel.
15 These be the sons of Leah, which she
bear unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his
daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons
and his daughters were thirty and three.
16 Also the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and
Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi,
and Areli.
17 Also the sons of Asher: Imnah, and
Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah
their sister. And the sons of Beriah:
Heber, and Malchiel. 18 These are the
children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to
Leah his daughter: and these she bear
unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
19 The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife
were Joseph and Benjamin. 20 And unto
Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh, and Ephraim, which Asenath
the daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On
bear unto him. 21 Also 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, which
were born unto Jacob, fourteen souls in
all.
23 Also the sons of Dan: Hushim.
24 Also 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 bear these to Jacob, in all, seven
souls.
26 All the souls, that came with Jacob
into Egypt, which came out of his loins
(beside Jacob’s sons’ wives) were in
the whole, threescore and six souls. 27
Also the sons of Joseph, which were
born him in Egypt, were two souls: so
that all the souls of the house of Jacob,
which came into Egypt, are seventy. 28
Then he sent Judah before him unto
Joseph, to direct his way unto Goshen,
and they came into the land of Goshen.
29 Then Joseph made ready his chariot
and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his
father, and presented himself unto him,
and fell on his neck, and wept upon his
neck a good while.
30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let
me die, since I have seen thy face, and
that thou art yet alive.
31 Then Joseph said to his brethren, and
to his father’s house, I will go up and
show Pharaoh, and tell 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, and
because they are shepherds, they have
brought their sheep and their cattle, and
all that they have.
33 And if Pharaoh call you, and ask you,
What is your trade?
34 Then ye shall say, Thy servants are
men occupied about cattle, from our
childhood even unto this time, both we
and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the
land of Goshen: for every sheep keeper
is an abomination unto the Egyptians.