46Genesis 46

Jacob and His Family Go to Egypt

1Jacob packed up all he had and went to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.Select Genesis 46:1

2God spoke to him in a vision at night and called, “Jacob, Jacob!” “Yes, here I am,” he answered.Select Genesis 46:2

3“I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go to Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there.Select Genesis 46:3

4I will go with you to Egypt, and I will bring your descendants back to this land. Joseph will be with you when you die.”Select Genesis 46:4

5Jacob set out from Beersheba. His sons put him, their small children, and their wives in the wagons which the king of Egypt had sent.Select Genesis 46:5

6They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him:Select Genesis 46:6

7his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters.Select Genesis 46:7

8The members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt with him were his oldest son ReubenSelect Genesis 46:8

9and Reuben's sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.Select Genesis 46:9

10Simeon and his sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.Select Genesis 46:10

11Levi and his sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.Select Genesis 46:11

12Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.Select Genesis 46:12

13Issachar and his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.Select Genesis 46:13

14Zebulun and his sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.Select Genesis 46:14

15These are the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides his daughter Dinah. In all, his descendants by Leah numbered thirty-three.Select Genesis 46:15

16Gad and his sons: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arod, and Areli.Select Genesis 46:16

17Asher and his sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel.Select Genesis 46:17

18These sixteen are the descendants of Jacob by Zilpah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah.Select Genesis 46:18

19Jacob's wife Rachel bore him two sons: Joseph and Benjamin.Select Genesis 46:19

20In Egypt Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, by Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in Heliopolis.Select Genesis 46:20

21Benjamin's sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.Select Genesis 46:21

22These fourteen are the descendants of Jacob by Rachel.Select Genesis 46:22

23Dan and his son Hushim.Select Genesis 46:23

24Naphtali and his sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.Select Genesis 46:24

25These seven are the descendants of Jacob by Bilhah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel.Select Genesis 46:25

26The total number of the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not including his sons' wives.Select Genesis 46:26

27Two sons were born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to seventy the total number of Jacob's family who went there.Select Genesis 46:27

Jacob and His Family in Egypt

28Jacob sent Judah ahead to ask Joseph to meet them in Goshen. When they arrived,Select Genesis 46:28

29Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms around his father's neck and cried for a long time.Select Genesis 46:29

30Jacob said to Joseph, “I am ready to die, now that I have seen you and know that you are still alive.”Select Genesis 46:30

31Then Joseph said to his brothers and the rest of his father's family, “I must go and tell the king that my brothers and all my father's family, who were living in Canaan, have come to me.Select Genesis 46:31

32I will tell him that you are shepherds and take care of livestock and that you have brought your flocks and herds and everything else that belongs to you.Select Genesis 46:32

33When the king calls for you and asks what your occupation is,Select Genesis 46:33

34be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen.” Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds.Select Genesis 46:34