Genesis 46  New American 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 And ^(C)God spoke to Israel ^[a]in visions of the night and said, “^(D)Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³ Then 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 into a great nation there. ^4 (G)I will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(H)I will also assuredly bring you up again; and ^(I)Joseph will ^[b]close your eyes.”

⁵ Then Jacob left 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 They also took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and ^(K)came to Egypt, Jacob and all his ^[c]descendants with him: ⁷ his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his ^[d]descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Those Who Came to Egypt

⁸ Now these are the ^(L)names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. ⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ¹⁰ And the ^(M)sons of Simeon: ^[e]Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, ^[f]Jachin, ^[g]Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. ¹¹ And the sons of Levi: ^[h]Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² And the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the ^(N)sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola, ^[i]Puvvah, ^[j]Iob, and Shimron. ¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; ^[k]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. ¹⁶ And the ^(O)sons of Gad: ^[l]Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, ^[m]Ezbon, Eri, ^[n]Arodi, and Areli. ¹⁷ And the ^(P)sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, 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 And the ^(S)sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, ^[o]Ehi, Rosh, ^[p]Muppim, ^[q]Huppim, and Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all. ²³ And the sons of Dan: ^[r]Hushim. ²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: ^[s]Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and ^[t]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 people belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, ^[u]his direct descendants, not including 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 ^[v]two; ^(W)all the people of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to ^[w]guide him to ^(X)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. ²⁹ And Joseph ^[x]prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared to him, Joseph threw himself on his neck and ^(Y)wept on his neck a long time. ³⁰ Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.” ³¹ But Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “^(Z)I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will 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 ^[y]keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ ³³ When Pharaoh calls for you and says, ‘^(AA)What is your occupation?’ ³⁴ you shall say, ‘Your servants have been ^[z](AB)keepers of livestock since our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of ^(AC)Goshen; for every shepherd is an ^(AD)abomination to the Egyptians.”