Genesis:46-47
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And Israel took his journey with all that he had ,
and came to Beersheba ,
and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac .
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And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night ,
and said ,
Jacob ,
Jacob .
And he said ,
Here am I .
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And he said ,
I am God ,
the God of thy father :
fear not to go down into Egypt ;
for I will there make of thee a great nation :
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I will go down with thee into Egypt ;
and I will also surely bring thee up again :
and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes .
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And Jacob rose up from Beersheba :
and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father ,
and their little ones ,
and their wives ,
in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him .
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And they took their cattle ,
and their goods ,
which they had gotten in the land of Canaan ,
and came into Egypt ,
Jacob ,
and all his seed with him :
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His sons ,
and his sons '
sons with him ,
his daughters ,
and his sons '
daughters ,
and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt .
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And these are the names of the children of Israel ,
which came into Egypt ,
Jacob and his sons :
Reuben ,
Jacob '
s firstborn .
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And the sons of Reuben ;
Hanoch ,
and Phallu ,
and Hezron ,
and Carmi .
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And the sons of Simeon ;
Jemuel ,
and Jamin ,
and Ohad ,
and Jachin ,
and Zohar ,
and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman .
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And the sons of Levi ;
Gershon ,
Kohath ,
and Merari .
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And the sons of Judah ;
Er ,
and Onan ,
and Shelah ,
and Pharez ,
and Zerah :
but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan .
And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul .
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And the sons of Issachar ;
Tola ,
and Phuvah ,
and Job ,
and Shimron .
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And the sons of Zebulun ;
Sered ,
and Elon ,
and Jahleel .
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These be the sons of Leah ,
which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram ,
with his daughter Dinah :
all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three .
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And the sons of Gad ;
Ziphion ,
and Haggi ,
Shuni ,
and Ezbon ,
Eri ,
and Arodi ,
and Areli .
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And the sons of Asher ;
Jimnah ,
and Ishuah ,
and Isui ,
and Beriah ,
and Serah their sister :
and the sons of Beriah ;
Heber ,
and Malchiel .
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These are the sons of Zilpah ,
whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter ,
and these she bare unto Jacob ,
even sixteen souls .
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The sons of Rachel Jacob '
s wife ;
Joseph ,
and Benjamin .
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And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim ,
which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him .
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And the sons of Benjamin were Belah ,
and Becher ,
and Ashbel ,
Gera ,
and Naaman ,
Ehi ,
and Rosh ,
Muppim ,
and Huppim ,
and Ard .
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These are the sons of Rachel ,
which were born to Jacob :
all the souls were fourteen .
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And the sons of Dan ;
Hushim .
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And the sons of Naphtali ;
Jahzeel ,
and Guni ,
and Jezer ,
and Shillem .
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These are the sons of Bilhah ,
which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter ,
and she bare these unto Jacob :
all the souls were seven .
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All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt ,
which came out of his loins ,
besides Jacob '
s sons '
wives ,
all the souls were threescore and six ;
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And the sons of Joseph ,
which were born him in Egypt ,
were two souls :
all the souls of the house of Jacob ,
which came into Egypt ,
were threescore and ten .
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And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph ,
to direct his face unto Goshen ;
and they came into the land of Goshen .
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And Joseph made ready his chariot ,
and went up to meet Israel his father ,
to Goshen ,
and presented himself unto him ;
and he fell on his neck ,
and wept on his neck a good while .
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And Israel said unto Joseph ,
Now let me die ,
since I have seen thy face ,
because thou art yet alive .
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And Joseph said unto his brethren ,
and unto his father '
s house ,
I will go up ,
and shew Pharaoh ,
and say unto him ,
My brethren ,
and my father '
s house ,
which were in the land of Canaan ,
are come unto me ;
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And the men are shepherds ,
for their trade hath been to feed cattle ;
and they have brought their flocks ,
and their herds ,
and all that they have .
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And it shall come to pass ,
when Pharaoh shall call you ,
and shall say ,
What is your occupation ?
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That ye shall say ,
Thy servants '
trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now ,
both we ,
and also our fathers :
that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ;
for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians .
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Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh ,
and said ,
My father and my brethren ,
and their flocks ,
and their herds ,
and all that they have ,
are come out of the land of Canaan ;
and ,
behold ,
they are in the land of Goshen .
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And he took some of his brethren ,
even five men ,
and presented them unto Pharaoh .
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And Pharaoh said unto his brethren ,
What is your occupation ?
And they said unto Pharaoh ,
Thy servants are shepherds ,
both we ,
and also our fathers .
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They said moreover unto Pharaoh ,
For to sojourn in the land are we come ;
for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks ;
for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan :
now therefore ,
we pray thee ,
let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen .
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And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph ,
saying ,
Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee :
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The land of Egypt is before thee ;
in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell ;
in the land of Goshen let them dwell :
and if thou knowest any men of activity among them ,
then make them rulers over my cattle .
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And Joseph brought in Jacob his father ,
and set him before Pharaoh :
and Jacob blessed Pharaoh .
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And Pharaoh said unto Jacob ,
How old art thou ?
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh ,
The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years :
few and evil have the days of the years of my life been ,
and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage .
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And Jacob blessed Pharaoh ,
and went out from before Pharaoh .
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And Joseph placed his father and his brethren ,
and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt ,
in the best of the land ,
in the land of Rameses ,
as Pharaoh had commanded .
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And Joseph nourished his father ,
and his brethren ,
and all his father '
s household ,
with bread ,
according to their families .
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And there was no bread in all the land ;
for the famine was very sore ,
so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine .
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And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt ,
and in the land of Canaan ,
for the corn which they bought :
and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh '
s house .
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And when money failed in the land of Egypt ,
and in the land of Canaan ,
all the Egyptians came unto Joseph ,
and said ,
Give us bread :
for why should we die in thy presence ?
for the money faileth .
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And Joseph said ,
Give your cattle ;
and I will give you for your cattle ,
if money fail .
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And they brought their cattle unto Joseph :
and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses ,
and for the flocks ,
and for the cattle of the herds ,
and for the asses :
and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year .
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When that year was ended ,
they came unto him the second year ,
and said unto him ,
We will not hide it from my lord ,
how that our money is spent ;
my lord also hath our herds of cattle ;
there is not ought left in the sight of my lord ,
but our bodies ,
and our lands :
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Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes ,
both we and our land ?
buy us and our land for bread ,
and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh :
and give us seed ,
that we may live ,
and not die ,
that the land be not desolate .
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And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh ;
for the Egyptians sold every man his field ,
because the famine prevailed over them :
so the land became Pharaoh '
s .
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And as for the people ,
he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof .
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Only the land of the priests bought he not ;
for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh ,
and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them :
wherefore they sold not their lands .
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Then Joseph said unto the people ,
Behold ,
I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh :
lo ,
here is seed for you ,
and ye shall sow the land .
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And it shall come to pass in the increase ,
that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh ,
and four parts shall be your own ,
for seed of the field ,
and for your food ,
and for them of your households ,
and for food for your little ones .
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And they said ,
Thou hast saved our lives :
let us find grace in the sight of my lord ,
and we will be Pharaoh '
s servants .
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And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day ,
that Pharaoh should have the fifth part ;
except the land of the priests only ,
which became not Pharaoh '
s .
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And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt ,
in the country of Goshen ;
and they had possessions therein ,
and grew ,
and multiplied exceedingly .
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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years :
so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years .
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And the time drew nigh that Israel must die :
and he called his son Joseph ,
and said unto him ,
If now I have found grace in thy sight ,
put ,
I pray thee ,
thy hand under my thigh ,
and deal kindly and truly with me ;
bury me not ,
I pray thee ,
in Egypt :
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But I will lie with my fathers ,
and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt ,
and bury me in their buryingplace .
And he said ,
I will do as thou hast said .
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And he said ,
Swear unto me .
And he sware unto him .
And Israel bowed himself upon the bed '
s head .
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And it came to pass after these things ,
that one told Joseph ,
Behold ,
thy father is sick :
and he took with him his two sons ,
Manasseh and Ephraim .
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