46 So Yisrael (Israel) started his trip, taking everything he had. When they stopped in Be’er-Sheva (Beersheba), he offered sacrifices to the god of his father Yitshak (Isaac). 2 During the night, God spoke to Yisrael in visions sayings, “Ya’akov (Jacob), Ya’akov.”

“I’m listening,” he answered. 3 Then God told him, “I’m God, the god of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down to Mitsrayim (Egypt), because I’ll make you into a great nation there. 4 I myself will go down with you to Mitsrayim, and I myself will also surely bring you back here. And Yosef (Joseph) will be there with you when you die.”

5 Then Ya’akov departed from Be’er-Sheva, and his sons carried their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts that Par’oh (Pharaoh) had sent to carry him. 6 They had also brought along all their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in Kena’an (Canaan). Then they arrived in Mitsrayim—Ya’akov and all of his offspring with him:[ref] 7 his sons and his sons’ sons with him, and his daughters and his sons’ daughters. So he brought all his offspring with him to Mitsrayim.

8 These are the names of Yisrael’s sons who went to Mitsrayim, that is Ya’akov and his sons: Ya’akov’s firstborn was Re’uven, 9 and Re’uven’s sons were Hanok and Palu and Hetsron and Karmi. 10 Shim’on’s (Simeon’s) sons were Yemuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yakin, Tsohar, and Shaul, the son of a Kena’ani (Canaanite) woman. 11 Levi’s sons were Gereshon, Kohat, and Merari. 12 Yehudah’s (Judah’s) sons were Er, Onan, Shela, Perets, and Zerah, but Er and Onan had died in Kena’an. Perets’ sons were Hetsron and Hamul. 13 Yisakar’s (Issachar’s) sons were Tola, Puah, Iyov (Job), and Shimron. 14 Zevulun’s sons were Sered, Eylon, and Yahle’el. 15 Those were all Le’ah’s sons that she bore for Ya’akov in Padan-Aram, along with his daughter Dinah. The total number of those descendants was thirty-three.

16 Gad’s sons were Tsifyon,Hagi, Shuni, Etsbon, Eri, Arod, and Areli. 17 Asher’s sons were Yimnah, Yishvah, Yishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. And Beriah’s sons were Hever and Malkiel. 18 Those were all Zilpah’s sons, the slave woman that Lavan (Laban) had given to his daughter Le’ah, and she gave birth to those sixteen descendants for Ya’akov.

19 Ya’akov’s wife Rahel’s (Rachel’s) sons were Yosef (Joseph) and Benyamin. 20 Yosef’s sons Menasheh (Manasseh) and Efrayim (Ephraim) were born in Mitsrayim (Egypt). Esenat, the daughter of Poti-Fera the priest of On, gave birth to them for Yosef.[ref] 21 Benyamin’s sons were Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Na’aman, Ehi, Rosh, Mupim, Hupim, and Ard. 22 Those were all Rahel’s descendants—a total of fourteen.

23 Dan’s son was Hushim. 24 Naftali’s (Naphtali’s) sons were Yahtse’el, Guni, Yetser, and Shilem. 25 Those two were both Bilhah’s sons, the slave woman that Lavan had given to his daughter Rahel, and she gave birth to those seven descendants for Ya’akov.

26 The total count of those who went to Mitsrayim with Ya’akov who were his descendants (not counting his daughters-in-law) was sixty-six. 27 As well as that, Yosef’s two sons were born in Mitsrayim so that added up to a grand total of seventy.[ref]