Jacob and His Family Move to Egypt

46:1-27

46 Then Israel set out and all that belonged to him. Then he came to Beersheba, and he sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” And he said, “Behold me.” 3 And he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, because I will make you into a great nation there. 4 I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also surely bring you up. And Joseph will put his hand over your eyes.”

5 Then Jacob got up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. Then they came to Egypt, Jacob and all of his offspring with him, 7 his sons and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters and his sons’ daughters. So all his offspring he brought with him to Egypt.

8 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: the firstborn of Jacob was Reuben. 9 And the sons of Reuben were Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. 10 And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 11 And the sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of Judah were Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah, but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 And the sons of Issachar were Tola and Puvah and Job and Shimron. 14 And the sons of Zebulun were Sered and Elon and Jahleel. 15 Those were the sons of Leah, whom she bore for Jacob in Paddan Aram, and Dinah his daughter. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

16 And the sons of Gad were Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli. 17 And the sons of Asher were Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malkiel. 18 Those were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to Leah his daughter. And she bore those sixteen souls for Jacob.

19 The sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob, were Joseph and Benjamin. 20 And Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore for him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin were Bela and Beker and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. 22 Those were the sons of Rachel, whom she bore for Jacob; all the souls were fourteen.

23 And the sons of Dan were Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali were Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. 25 Those were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban had given to Rachel his daughter. And she bore those for Jacob; all the souls were seven.

26 All the souls who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came out of his thigh, apart from the wives of Jacob’s sons; all the souls were sixty-six. 27 And the sons of Joseph who were born for him in Egypt were two souls. All the souls belonging to the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.