And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-Sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
And God spoke to Israel in the night visions and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here [am] I.
And 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.
I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also certainly bring thee up [again]; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, on the waggons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
And they took their cattle and their goods which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him,
his sons and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.
And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Jacob’s first-born, Reuben;
and the sons of Reuben, Enoch and Phallu and Hezron and Carmi;
and the sons of Simeon, Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Saul son of a Canaanitish woman.
And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath and Merari;
and the sons of Judah, Er and Onan and Shelah, and Pherez and Zarah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
And the sons of Issachar, Tola and Puah, and Job and Shimron;
and the sons of Zebulun, Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
These [are] the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and daughters [were] thirty-three.
And the sons of Gad, Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;
and the sons of Asher, Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister, and the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel.
These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.
The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, Joseph and Benjamin.
And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath bore to him, daughter of Potiphera, priest in On;
and the sons of Benjamin, Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
These [are] the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: all the souls [were] fourteen.
And the sons of Dan, Hushim;
and the sons of Naphtali, Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.
These [are] the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls [were] seven.
All the souls belonging to Jacob that came into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives: all the souls [were] sixty-six.
And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt [were] two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt, [were] seventy.
And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to give notice before he came to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen.
Then Joseph got ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself to him, and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
And Israel said to Joseph, This time let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou livest.
And Joseph said to his brethren and to his father’s house, I will go up and tell Pharaoh and say to him, My brethren and my father’s house, who [were] in the land of Canaan, are come to me;
and the men [are] shepherds, for they are men of cattle; and they have brought their sheep and their cattle, and all that they have.
And it shall come to pass that when Pharaoh shall call you and say, What [is] your occupation?
then ye shall say, Thy servants are men of cattle from our youth even till now, both we and our fathers; in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.