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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am," he replied. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"I am God, the God of your father," he said. "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 to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters--all his offspring. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8These are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The sons of Reuben: Hanok, Pallu, Hezron and Karmi. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, 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, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon and Jahleel. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15These were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, besides his daughter Dinah. These sons and daughters of his were thirty-three in all. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The sons of Gad: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah. Their sister was Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah--sixteen in all. |
| 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] | 20In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob--fourteen in all. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The son of Dan: Hushim. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel--seven in all. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26All those who went to Egypt with Jacob--those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons' wives--numbered sixty-six persons. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27With the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When they arrived in the region of Goshen, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Israel said to Joseph, "Now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive." |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.' |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, 'What is your occupation?' |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34you should answer, 'Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians." |
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