Genesis 46  Legacy Standard Bible

Jacob Moves to Egypt

46 So Israel set out with all that he had and came to ^(A)Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the ^(B)God of his father Isaac. ^2 (C)And God spoke to Israel ^[a]in visions of the night and said, “^(D)Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³ And He said, “^(E)I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will ^(F)make you a great nation there. ^4 (G)I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(H)I Myself will also bring you up again; and ^(I)Joseph will ^[b]close your eyes with his hand.”

⁵ Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the ^(J)wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶ And they took their livestock and their possessions, which they had accumulated in the land of Canaan, and they ^(K)came to Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him: ⁷ his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt.

⁸ Now these are the ^(L)names of the sons of Israel—of Jacob and his sons—who were coming to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. ⁹ The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. ¹⁰ The ^(M)sons of Simeon: ^[c]Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and ^[d]Jachin and ^[e]Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. ¹¹ The sons of Levi: ^[f]Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² 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 ^(N)sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ The sons of Issachar: Tola and ^[g]Puvvah and ^[h]Iob and Shimron. ¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; ^[i]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

¹⁶ The ^(O)sons of Gad: ^[j]Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and ^[k]Ezbon, Eri and ^[l]Arodi and Areli. ¹⁷ The ^(P)sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the ^(Q)sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.

¹⁹ The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ^20 (R)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. ²¹ The ^(S)sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, ^[m]Ehi and Rosh, ^[n]Muppim and ^[o]Huppim and Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all.

²³ The sons of Dan: ^[p]Hushim. ²⁴ The sons of Naphtali: ^[q]Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and ^[r]Shillem.

²⁵ These are the ^(T)sons of Bilhah, whom ^(U)Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all. ^26 (V)All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, who came out of his loins, excluding the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all, ²⁷ and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were ^[s]two; ^(W)all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to ^(X)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. ²⁹ And Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared ^[t]before him, he fell on his neck and ^(Y)wept on his neck a long time. ³⁰ Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now I can die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.” ³¹ And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “^(Z)I will go up and tell Pharaoh and say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me; ³² and the men are shepherds, for they have been ^[u]keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ ³³ And it will be when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘^(AA)What is your occupation?’ ³⁴ then you shall say, ‘Your servants have been ^[v](AB)keepers of livestock from our youth and until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may ^[w]live in the land of ^(AC)Goshen; for every shepherd is ^(AD)an abomination to the Egyptians.”