Genesis 46:1-7 ▼

1 Israel set out with all that was his. When he arrived at Beer-sheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

2 There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called: Jacob! Jacob! He answered, “Here I am.”

3 Then he said: I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation.

4 I will go down to Egypt with you and I will also bring you back here, after Joseph has closed your eyes.

5 So Jacob departed from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel put their father and their wives and children on the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.

6 They took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan. So Jacob and all his descendants came to Egypt.

7 His sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters—all his descendants—he took with him to Egypt.