46Genesis 46

CHAP. XLVI. / 1 Iacob is comforted by God at Beersheba. 5 Thence hee with his company goeth into Egypt. 8 The number of his family that went into Egypt. 28 Ioseph meeteth Iacob. 31 Hee instructeth his

1And Israel tooke his iourney with all that hee had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices vnto the God of his father Isaac.Select Genesis 46:1

2And God spake vnto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Iacob, Iacob. And he said, Here am I.Select Genesis 46:2

3And he said, I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to goe downe into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation.Select Genesis 46:3

4I will goe downe with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee vp againe: and Ioseph shall put his hand vpon thine eyes.Select Genesis 46:4

5And Iacob rose vp from Beersheba: and the sonnes of Israel caried Iacob their father, and their litle ones, and their wiues, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to cary him.Select Genesis 46:5

6And they tooke their cattell, and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Iacob, and all his seed with him:Select Genesis 46:6

7His sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes with him, his daughters, and his sonnes daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.Select Genesis 46:7

8And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Iacob and his sonnes: Reuben Iacobs first borne;Select Genesis 46:8

9And the sonnes of Reuben, Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.Select Genesis 46:9

10And the sonnes of Simeon: Iemuel, and Iamin, and Ohad, and Iachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the sonne of a Canaanitish woman.Select Genesis 46:10

11And the sonnes of Leui: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.Select Genesis 46:11

12And the sonnes of Iudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: But Er & Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sonnes of Pharez, were Hezron, and Hamul.Select Genesis 46:12

13And the sonnes of Issachar: Tola, and Phuuah, and Iob, and Shimron.Select Genesis 46:13

14And the sonnes of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Iahleel.Select Genesis 46:14

15These bee the sonnes of Leah, which she bare vnto Iacob in Padan-Aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the soules of his sonnes and his daughters, were thirtie and three.Select Genesis 46:15

16And the sonnes of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.Select Genesis 46:16

17And the sonnes of Asher: Iimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: And the sonnes of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.Select Genesis 46:17

18These are the sonnes of Zilpah, whome Laban gaue to Leah his daughter: and these she bare vnto Iacob, euen sixteene soules.Select Genesis 46:18

19The sonnes of Rachel Iacobs wife: Ioseph, and Beniamin.Select Genesis 46:19

20And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypt, were borne Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah Priest of On bare vnto him.Select Genesis 46:20

21And the sonnes of Beniamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.Select Genesis 46:21

22These are the sonnes of Rachel which were borne to Iacob: all the soules were fourteene.Select Genesis 46:22

23And the sonnes of Dan: Hushim.Select Genesis 46:23

24And the sonnes of Naphtali: Iahzeel, and Guni, and Iezer, and Shillem.Select Genesis 46:24

25These are the sonnes of Bilhah, which Laban gaue vnto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these vnto Iacob: all the soules were seuen.Select Genesis 46:25

26All the soules that came with Iacob into Egypt, which came out of his loines, besides Iacobs sonnes wiues, all the soules were threescore and sixe.Select Genesis 46:26

27And the sonnes of Ioseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two soules: all the soules of the house of Iacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.Select Genesis 46:27

28And he sent Iudah before him vnto Ioseph, to direct his face vnto Goshen, and they came into the lande of Goshen.Select Genesis 46:28

29And Ioseph made ready his charet, and went vp to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himselfe vnto him: and he fell on his necke, and wept on his necke a good while.Select Genesis 46:29

30And Israel saide vnto Ioseph, Now let me die, since I haue seene thy face, because thou art yet aliue.Select Genesis 46:30

31And Ioseph said vnto his brethren, and vnto his fathers house, I will goe vp, and shew Pharaoh, and say vnto him, My brethren, & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me.Select Genesis 46:31

32And the men are sheapheards, for their trade hath bene to feed cattell: and they haue brought their flocks, and their heards, and all that they haue.Select Genesis 46:32

33And it shall come to passe when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?Select Genesis 46:33

34That ye shall say, Thy seruants trade hath bene about cattell, from our youth euen vntill now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for euery shepheard is an abomination vnto the Egyptians.Select Genesis 46:34