| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2That night God spoke to Israel in a vision: "Jacob, Jacob!" He said. And Jacob replied, "Here I am." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3God said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back. Joseph will put his hands on your eyes." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Jacob left Beer-sheba. The sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and their wives. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They also took their cattle and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan. Then Jacob and all his children went with him to Egypt. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7His sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters, indeed all his offspring, he brought with him to Egypt. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Jacob's firstborn: Reuben. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Reuben's sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Simeon's sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Levi's sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Judah's sons: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. Perez's sons: Hezron and Hamul. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Issachar's sons: Tola, Puvah, Jashub, and Shimron. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Zebulun's sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15These were Leah's sons born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. The total number of persons: 33. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Gad's sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Asher's sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18These were the sons of Zilpah--whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah--that she bore to Jacob: 16 persons. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. They were born to him by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, a priest at On. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Benjamin's sons: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22These were Rachel's sons who were born to Jacob: 14 persons. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Dan's son: Hushim. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Naphtali's sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She bore to Jacob: seven persons. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The total number of persons belonging to Jacob--his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob's sons--who came to Egypt: 66. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And Joseph's sons who were born to him in Egypt: two persons. All those of Jacob's household who had come to Egypt: 70 persons. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to prepare for his arrival at Goshen. When they came to the land of Goshen, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Then Israel said to Joseph, "At last I can die, now that I have seen your face and know you are still alive!" |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and inform Pharaoh, telling him: My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The men are shepherds; they also raise livestock. They have brought their sheep and cattle and all that they have. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33When Pharaoh addresses you and asks, 'What is your occupation?' |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34you are to say, 'Your servants, both we and our fathers, have raised livestock from our youth until now.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are abhorrent to Egyptians." |
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