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Jacob Goes to Egypt
1 And Israel took his journey with all that he
had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the
God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night,
and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3 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:
4 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.
5 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.
6 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:
7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters,
and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with
him into Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children of Israel,
which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's
firstborn.
9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron,
and Carmi.
10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad,
and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman.
11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and
Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job,
and Shimron.
14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob
in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his
sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and
Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui,
and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah;
Heber, and Malchiel.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah
his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen
souls.
19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and
Benjamin.
20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of
Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and
Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim,
and Ard.
22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to
Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and
Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto
Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the
souls were seven.
26 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;
27 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.
28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct
his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
29 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.
30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I
have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his
father's house, 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;
32 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.
33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call
you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
34 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. |
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