1So Israel set out with all that he had. He came to Beersheba, and there he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."
3And he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down into Egypt. For there I will make you into a great nation."
4"I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will surely bring you up again. And Joseph will put his hand on your eyes."
5Then Jacob left Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6They took their cattle and the goods they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt: Jacob, and all his children with him.
7He brought with him into Egypt his sons, and his sons' sons, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his children.
8These are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
9The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah. But Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padanaram, together with his daughter Dinah. All his sons and his daughters were thirty-three people in all.
16The sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
17The sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, sixteen people in all.
20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim. Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, bore them to him.
21The sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
23The sons of Dan: Hushim.
24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. She bore these to Jacob. They were seven people in all.
26All the people who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not counting the wives of Jacob's sons, were sixty-six people in all.
27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two people. So all the people of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
28He sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to show him the way to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen.
29Joseph made his chariot ready and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father. He came before him, and threw his arms around his neck, and wept on his neck a long time.
30And Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and you are still alive."
31And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh. I will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me."
32"'The men are shepherds, for they have always kept livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'"
33"So when Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your work?'"
34"you must say, 'Your servants have kept livestock from our youth until now, both we and our fathers.' Then you may live in the land of Goshen, because every shepherd is disgusting to the Egyptians."