1And Israel journeyed, and all that he had, and came to Beer Shava; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Izhak.
2And the Lord spake to Israel in a vision of the night, and said, Jakob, Jakob. And he said, Behold, I am.
3And 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.
4I will go down with thee into Mizraim, and will surely bring thee up; but Joseph shall lay his hand upon thine eyes.
5And 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.
6And 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.
7His 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.
8And these are the names of the sons of Israel which came into Mizraim, Jakob and his sons. The firstborn of Jakob, Reuben.
9And the sons of Reuben. Hanuk and Phallu, Hesron and Karmi.
10And the sons of Sheemon, Jemuel, and Janin, and Ahad, and Jakin, and Zochar, and Shaul, the son of a Kenaanitha.
11And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kehath, and Merari.
12And 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.
13And the sons of Issakar, Tola, and Pheua, and Job, and Semeron.
14And the sons of Zabulon, Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15These 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.
16And the children of Gad, Sephyon and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
17And the sons of Asher, Jemna, and Jesva, and Jesvi, and Beriah, and Serach, their sister. And the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel.
18These are the sons of Zilpha, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bare these unto Jakob, sixteen souls.
19The sons of Rahel, the wife of Jakob, Joseph and Benjamin.
20And to Joseph were born in the land of Mizraim Menashe and Ephraim, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, prince of On, bare unto him.
21And the sons of Benjamin, Bela, and Bekor, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Achi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huphim, and Arede.
22These are the sons of Rahel which were born to Jakob; all the souls fourteen.
23And the sons of Dan, Hushim:
24And the sons of Naphtali, Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shilem.
25These are the children of Billah, whom Laban gave to Rahel his daughter, and she bare them to Jakob; all the souls seven.
26All 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.
27And 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.
28And he sent Jehuda before him to Joseph, to make the way clear before him at Goshen, and he came to the land of Goshen.
29And 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!
30And 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.
31And 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.
32But 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.
33And it shall be when Pharoh calleth you, and shall ask you, What is your employment?
34You 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.
