Chapter 46 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to
Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, 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 surely bring thee up
again.
And Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
And Jacob rose up from Beersheba.
And the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones,
and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had gotten 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 brought he with him into Egypt.
And these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt, Jacob and
his sons, Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and the sons of Reuben, Hanuk,
and Phalu, and Hezron, and Carmi, and the sons of Simeon, Jemuel,
and Janan, and Odad, and Jachon, and Zohar, and Shal, the son of a
Canaanitish woman, and the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Morari, and the sons
of Judah, Ur, and Onan, and Shelah, and Phares, and Zerah.
But Ur and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And the sons of Phares were Hezron and Hamel, and the sons of Hezekiah,
Tola, and Phuva, and Job, and Shimron, and the sons of Zebulun, Sirud,
and Elon, and Jaleel.
These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanerim, with his daughter
Dinah.
All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
And the sons of Gad, Ziphion, and Hagi, Shunai, and Esbon, Eri, and Eredi,
and Areli.
And the sons of Asher, Jimna, and Ishuah, and Isuai, and Bariah, and Sarah their
sister.
And the sons of Bariah, Heber, and Malkiel.
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter.
And these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls, the sons of Rachel,
Jacob's wife, Joseph, and Benjamin.
And under Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath,
the daughter of Petipharah, priest of On, bare unto him.
And the sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Bekir, and Ashbel, Jireh, and Naaman,
Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob.
All the souls were fourteen.
And the sons of Dan, Hushim, and the sons of Naphtali, Jezeel, and Gunai,
and Jezer, and Shilom.
These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter.
And she bare these unto Jacob.
All the souls were seven.
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins,
besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six.
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls.
All the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and
ten.
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen.
And they came into the land of Goshen.
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father to
Goshen, and presented himself unto him.
And he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren and my
father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me.
And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle.
And they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say,
What is your occupation?
That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth,
even until now, both we and also our fathers.
That ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination unto
the Egyptians.