1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”
3 And he said, “I am God, the God of thy father: do not fear to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of you a great nation:
4 I will go down with you into Egypt; and I will also surely bring you up again; and even Joseph shall be there for you when you die.”
5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: 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, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s first-born.
9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10 And the sons of Simeon: [a]Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and [b]Jachin, and [c]Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
11 And the sons of Levi: [d]Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and [e]Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron.
14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
16 And the sons of Gad: [f]Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and [g]Ezbon, Eri, and [h]Arodi, and Areli.
17 And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, 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, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, [i]Ehi, and Rosh, [j]Muppim, and [k]Huppim, and Ard.
22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
23 And the sons of Dan: [l]Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali: [m]Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and [n]Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
26 All the [o]souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six;
27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.
28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to show the way before him 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 he presented himself unto him, and 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 your face, that you are still alive.”
31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, “I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, 'My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come unto me;
32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of 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 have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers;' that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
[10] In Num. 26:12; 1 Chr. 4:24, Nemuel.
[10] In 1 Chr. 4:24, Jarib.
[10] In Num. 26:13; 1 Chr. 4:24, Zerah.
[11] In 1 Chr. 6:16, Gershom.
[13] In 1 Chr. 7:1, Puvah, Jashub. See Num. 26:23, 24.
[16] In Num. 26:15, Zephon.
[16] In Num. 26:16, Ozni.
[16] In Num. 26:17, Arod.
[21] In Num. 26:38, Ahiram.
[21] In Num. 26:39, Shephupham. In 1 Chr. 7:12, Shuppim.
[21] In Num. 26:39, Hupham.
[23] In Num. 26:42, Shuham.
[24] In 1 Chr. 7:13, Jahziel.
[24] In 1 Chr. 7:13, Shallum.
[26] Or, souls belonging to Jacob that came
[34] ‘an abomination’ signifies a spiritual antagonism; for the Egyptians had a spiritual antagonism to shepherds since they worshiped the Lamb (a ‘lamb god’, the ‘lamb of god’).