| Chapter 46 |
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Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. |
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God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am." |
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He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don`t be afraid to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of you a great nation. |
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I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes." |
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Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. |
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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, |
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his sons, and his sons` sons with him, his daughters, and his sons` daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. |
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These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob`s firstborn. |
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The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. |
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The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. |
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The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
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The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. |
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The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. |
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The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. |
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These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. |
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The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. |
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The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. |
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These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls. |
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The sons of Rachel, Jacob`s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. |
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To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. |
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The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. |
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These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. |
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The sons of Dan: Hushim. |
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The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. |
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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. |
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All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob`s sons` wives, all the souls were sixty-six. |
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The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy. |
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He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. |
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Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. |
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Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive." |
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Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father`s house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, `My brothers, and my father`s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. |
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These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.` |
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It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, `What is your occupation?` |
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that you shall say, `Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:` that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." |