| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They took their livestock and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him: |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The sons of Issachar: Tola and Puvvah and Iob and Shimron. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen 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] | 20Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The sons of Dan: Hushim. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob's sons, were sixty-six persons in all, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that 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 tell Pharaoh, and will say to 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] | 32and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.' |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your occupation?' |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians." |
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