1So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba. And he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and called out, Jacob! Jacob! And he said, Here am I. 3And He said, I am the Mighty God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there. 4I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will arise to bring you back. And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes. 5And Jacob arose from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6So they took their livestock and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him. 7His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt. 8And these were the names of the sons of Israel who went into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben was Jacob’s firstborn. 9The sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 11The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron. 14The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls, his sons and his daughters: thirty-three. 16The sons of Gad were Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 17The sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel. 18These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen souls. 19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin. 20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him. 21The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen souls in all. 23The son of Dan was Hushim. 24The sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 25These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven souls in all. 26All the souls who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came forth from his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six souls in all. 27And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob who went into Egypt were seventy. 28And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to give directions before him to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen. 29And Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. 30And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive. 31And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s house, I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and those of my fathers house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 32And the men tend cattle, for they are men of livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have. 33So it shall be, when Pharaoh summons you and says, What is your occupation? 34that you shall say, Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and also our fathers; that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.