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1 And Israel journeyed, and all that he had, and came to Beer Shava; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Izhak. 2 And the Lord spake to Israel in a vision of the night, and said, Jakob, Jakob. And he said, Behold, I am. 3 And He said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Mizraim; for a great people will I make thee there. 4 I will go down with thee into Mizraim, and will surely bring thee up; but Joseph shall lay his hand upon thine eyes. 5 And Jakob arose from Beer Shava. And the sons of Israel carried Jakob their father, and their children, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharoh had sent to fetch them. 6 And they took their flocks and their substance which they had gotten in the land of Kenaan, and came to Mizraim, Jakob and all his sons with him. 7 His sons, and his son’s sons with him, his daughters, and the daughters of his sons, and all his seed, he brought with him into Mizraim.
8 And these are the names of the sons of Israel which came into Mizraim, Jakob and his sons. The firstborn of Jakob, Reuben. 9 And the sons of Reuben. Hanuk and Phallu, Hesron and Karmi. 10 And the sons of Sheemon, Jemuel, and Janin, and Ahad, and Jakin, and Zochar, and Shaul, the son of a Kenaanitha. 11 And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kehath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of Jehuda, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharets, and Zarach. But Er and Onan had died in the land of Kenaan And the sons of Pharets, Heshron and Chamul. 13 And the sons of Issakar, Tola, and Pheua, and Job, and Semeron. 14 And the sons of Zabulon, Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These are the sons of Leah, which she bare to Jakob in Padan Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the souls, his sons and his daughters, thirty and three. 16 And the children of Gad, Sephyon and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17 And the sons of Asher, Jemna, and Jesva, and Jesvi, and Beriah, and Serach, their sister. And the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpha, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bare these unto Jakob, sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rahel, the wife of Jakob, Joseph and Benjamin. 20 And to Joseph were born in the land of Mizraim Menashe and Ephraim, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, prince of On, bare unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin, Bela, and Bekor, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Achi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huphim, and Arede. 22 These are the sons of Rahel which were born to Jakob; all the souls fourteen. 23 And the sons of Dan, Hushim: 24 And the sons of Naphtali, Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shilem. 25 These are the children of Billah, whom Laban gave to Rahel his daughter, and she bare them to Jakob; all the souls seven. 26 All the souls which went with Jakob into Mizraim, which came forth from his loins, besides the wives of Jakob’s sons, all the souls, sixty and six. 27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born to him in Mizraim, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jakob which went into Mizraim were seventy.
28 And he sent Jehuda before him to Joseph, to make the way clear before him at Goshen, and he came to the land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph arrayed his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. And he saw him, and fell upon his neck, and wept. And he wept still upon his neck! 30 And Israel said to Joseph, I could-die at this time! I have consolation now that I have seen thy face; for thou art yet alive. 31 And Joseph said to his brothers, and to the house of his father, I will go up and show Pharoh, and will tell him, My brethren and the house of my father, who were in the land of Kenaan, have come to me. 32 But the men are shepherds of sheep: for the men are masters of flocks, and their sheep and oxen and all that they have they have brought. 33 And it shall be when Pharoh calleth you, and shall ask you, What is your employment? 34 You will say, Thy servants have been men, the masters of flocks from our youth until now; both we and our fathers: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; because the Mizraee keep at a distance all shepherds of flocks.