Genesis 46:2
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New International Version (©2011)
And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am," he replied.

New Living Translation (©2007)
During the night God spoke to him in a vision. "Jacob! Jacob!" he called. "Here I am," Jacob replied.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here am I.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
That night God spoke to Israel in a vision: "Jacob, Jacob!" He said. And Jacob replied, "Here I am."

International Standard Version (©2012)
God spoke to Israel through night visions, addressing him, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am!" Jacob replied.

NET Bible (©2006)
God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He replied, "Here I am!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
God spoke to Israel in a vision that night and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" "Here I am," he answered.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

American King James Version
And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

American Standard Version
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He heard him by a vision in the night calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.

Darby Bible Translation
And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here am I.

English Revised Version
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Webster's Bible Translation
And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob: and he said, Here am I.

World English Bible
God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."

Young's Literal Translation
and God speaketh to Israel in visions of the night, and saith, 'Jacob, Jacob;' and he saith, 'Here am I.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

46:1-4 Even as to those events and undertakings which appear most joyful, we should seek counsel, assistance, and a blessing from the Lord. Attending on his ordinances, and receiving the pledges of his covenant love, we expect his presence, and that peace which it confers. In all removals we should be reminded of our removal out of this world. Nothing can encourage us to fear no evil when passing through the valley of the shadow of death, but the presence of Christ.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - And God (Elohim) spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob - the name Jacob being employed probably to remind Jacob of what he had been (Lawson, Bush, Wordsworth), and repeated ut magis attentus reddatur (Calvin). And he said, Here am I - literally, behold me (cf. Genesis 22:1),

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night,.... He appeared to Jacob as he lay upon his bed in the night season, and with an articulate voice spoke to him as follows:

and said, Jacob, Jacob: not "Israel", the more honourable name he had given him, but Jacob, putting him in mind of his former low estate; and doubling this name, either out of love and affection to him, as Jarchi intimates; or rather in order to awake him, at least to stir up his attention to what he was about to say to him:

and he said, here am I; signifying his readiness to hearken to him in what he should say to him, and to obey him in whatsoever he should command him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. God spake unto Israel—Here is a virtual renewal of the covenant and an assurance of its blessings. Moreover, here is an answer on the chief subject of Jacob's prayer and a removal of any doubt as to the course he was meditating. At first the prospect of paying a personal visit to Joseph had been viewed with unmingled joy. But, on calmer consideration, many difficulties appeared to lie in the way. He may have remembered the prophecy to Abraham that his posterity was to be afflicted in Egypt and also that his father had been expressly told not to go [Ge 15:13; 26:2]; he may have feared the contamination of idolatry to his family and their forgetfulness of the land of promise. These doubts were removed by the answer of the oracle, and an assurance given him of great and increasing prosperity.

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Jacob's Journey to Egypt
1And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3And he said, I am God, the God of your father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation: …

Genesis 15:1 After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."
Genesis 22:11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.
Genesis 31:11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob.' I answered, 'Here I am.'
Numbers 12:6 he said, "Listen to my words: "When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.
Job 33:14 For God does speak--now one way, now another-- though no one perceives it.
Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,