Jacob’s Journey to Egypt

1And Israel journeyed, and all that was his, and he came to Beersheba and he sacrificed 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, “Behold, it is I.”

3And He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not fear from going down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 4I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up, and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.”

5And Jacob arose 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. 6And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him,

Those Who went to Egypt
(Exodus 1:1–7)

7his sons, and the sons of his sons with him, and his daughters, and the daughters of his sons, and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt.

The Children of Leah

8And these are the names of the sons of Israel, the ones coming to Egypt—Jacob and his sons: The firstborn of Jacob, Reuben.

9And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

10And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel,† and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar,† and Shaul son of the Canaanitess.

11And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

13And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah,† and Job,† and Shimron.

14And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram,† and together with Dinah his daughter. All the souls, his sons and his daughters, were thirty and three.

The Children of Zilpah

16And the sons of Gad: Ziphion,† and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi,† and Areli.

17And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, 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, and she bore these to Jacob—six and ten souls.

The Children of Rachel

19The sons of Rachel, wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

20And there were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,† bore to him: Manasseh and Ephraim.

21And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

22These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob—four and ten souls in all.

The Children of Bilhah

23And the sons of Dan: Hushim.

24And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob—seven souls in all.

26All the souls—the ones coming to Jacob, to Egypt, the ones coming out of his thigh, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob—were sixty and six souls in all. 27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls.† All the souls of the house of Jacob, the ones coming to Egypt, were seventy.†

Jacob Arrives in Egypt

28And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct before him to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen. 29And Joseph harnessed his chariot, and he went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father, and he appeared to him, and he fell on his necks, and he wept on his necks a long time.

30And Israel said to Joseph, “Let me die now, after my seeing your face, for you are still alive.”

31And Joseph said to his brothers and to the house of his father, “I will go up and let me tell Pharaoh and let me say to him, ‘My brothers and the house of my father, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 32And the men are shedherds of sheep, for they have been men of livestock; and their flocks and their herds and all that is theirs, they have brought.’

33And it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you⁺ and says, ‘What are your⁺ works?’ 34That you⁺ shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth and even until now, both we and also our fathers,’ so that you⁺ may dwell in the land of Goshen. For an abomination of Egypt is every shepherd of sheep.”

Footnotes:

10 Jemuel is another name for Nemuel; see Numbers 26:12.
10 Zohar is a variant of Zerah; see Numbers 26:13 and 1 Chronicles 4:24.
13 Hebrew; SP and Syriac Puah; see 1 Chronicles 7:1.
13 Hebrew; SP and some LXX manuscripts Jashub; see Numbers 26:24 and 1 Chronicles 7:1.
15 That is, northwest Mesopotamia
16 SP and LXX Zephon; see also Numbers 26:15.
16 Arodi is a variant of Arod; see Numbers 26:17.
20 That is, Heliopolis, as in LXX
27 Hebrew; LXX nine souls, probably including Joseph’s grandsons through Ephraim and Manasseh; see 1 Chronicles 7:14–29.
27 Hebrew (see also Exodus 1:5); LXX (see also Acts 7:14) seventy-five