| 1 | And Israel journeyeth, and all that he hath, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, and sacrificeth sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac; |
| 2 | and God speaketh to Israel in visions of the night, and saith, `Jacob, Jacob;` and he saith, `Here [am] I.` |
| 3 | And He saith, `I [am] God, God of thy father, be not afraid of going down to Egypt, for for a great nation I set thee there; |
| 4 | I -- I go down with thee to Egypt, and I -- I also certainly bring thee up, and Joseph doth put his hand on thine eyes.` |
| 5 | And Jacob riseth from Beer-Sheba, and the sons of Israel bear away Jacob their father, And their infants, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharaoh hath sent to bear him, |
| 6 | and they take their cattle, and their goods which they have acquired in the land of Canaan, and come into Egypt -- Jacob, and all his seed with him, |
| 7 | his sons, and his sons` sons with him, his daughters, and his sons` daughters, yea, all his seed he brought with him into Egypt. |
| 8 | And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Jacob`s first-born, Reuben. |
| 9 | And sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. |
| 10 | And sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul son of the Canaanitess. |
| 11 | And sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| 12 | And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul. |
| 13 | And sons of Issachar: Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. |
| 14 | And sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. |
| 15 | These [are] sons of Leah whom she bare to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters [are] thirty and three. |
| 16 | And sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. |
| 17 | And sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. |
| 18 | These [are] sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she beareth these to Jacob -- sixteen persons. |
| 19 | Sons of Rachel, Jacob`s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. |
| 20 | And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt (whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him) [are] Manasseh and Ephraim. |
| 21 | And sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. |
| 22 | These [are] sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the persons [are] fourteen. |
| 23 | And sons of Dan: Hushim. |
| 24 | And sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. |
| 25 | These [are] sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she beareth these to Jacob -- all the persons [are] seven. |
| 26 | All the persons who are coming to Jacob to Egypt, coming out of his thigh, apart from the wives of Jacob`s sons, all the persons [are] sixty and six. |
| 27 | And the sons of Joseph who have been born to him in Egypt [are] two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who are coming into Egypt [are] seventy. |
| 28 | And Judah he hath sent before him unto Joseph, to direct before him to Goshen, and they come into the land of Goshen; |
| 29 | and Joseph harnesseth his chariot, and goeth up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and appeareth unto him, and falleth on his neck, and weepeth on his neck again; |
| 30 | and Israel saith unto Joseph, `Let me die this time, after my seeing thy face, for thou [art] yet alive.` |
| 31 | And Joseph saith unto his brethren, and unto the house of his father, `I go up, and declare to Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and the house of my father who [are] in the land of Canaan have come in unto me; |
| 32 | and the men [are] feeders of a flock, for they have been men of cattle; and their flock, and their herd, and all that they have, they have brought.` |
| 33 | `And it hath come to pass when Pharaoh calleth for you, and hath said, What [are] your works? |
| 34 | that ye have said, Thy servants have been men of cattle from our youth, even until now, both we and our fathers, -- in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for the abomination of the Egyptians is every one feeding a flock.` |
