Genesis:46:1-49
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And Israel and all belonging to him departed ,
and he came to Beersheba .
And he sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac .
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And God said to Israel in visions of the night ,
and He spoke ,
Jacob !
Jacob !
And he answered ,
Behold me .
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And He said ,
I am God ,
the God of your fathers .
Do not fear to go down into Egypt ,
for I will make of you a great nation there .
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I will go down with you into Egypt ,
and I will also surely return you .
And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes .
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And Jacob rose up 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 .
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And they took their livestock and their property which they had acquired in the land of Canaan .
And they came into Egypt ,
Jacob and all his seed with him .
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His sons and the sons of his sons were with him ,
his daughters and his sons '
daughters ,
and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt .
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And these were the names of the sons of Israel ,
those coming into Egypt ,
Jacob and his sons :
the first born of Jacob was Reuben .
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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 Canaanitess .
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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 .
And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan .
And the sons of Pharez :
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 were the sons of Leah ,
whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram ,
and his daughter Dinah .
All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty 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 their sister Serah .
And the sons of Beriah :
Heber and Malchiel .
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These were the sons of Zilpah ,
whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah ;
and she bore these to Jacob ,
sixteen souls .
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The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob :
Joseph and Benjamin .
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And Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt ,
whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah ,
priest of On ,
bore to him .
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And the sons of Benjamin :
Belah ,
and Becher ,
and Ashbel ,
Gera ,
and Naaman ,
Ehi ,
and Rosh ,
and Muppim ,
and Huppim ,
and Ard .
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These were the sons of Rachel which were born to Jacob ;
all the souls were fourteen .
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And the son of Dan was Hushim .
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And the sons of Naphtali :
Jahzeel ,
and Guni ,
and Jezer ,
and Shillem .
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These were the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel ;
and she bore these to Jacob ,
all the souls were seven .
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All the souls belonging to Jacob coming into Egypt ,
those springing from his loins ,
besides the wives of the sons of Jacob ,
all the souls were sixty six .
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And the sons of Joseph which were born to him in Egypt ,
two souls .
All the souls belonging to the house of Jacob coming into Egypt were seventy .
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And he sent Judah before him to Joseph ,
to give directions before him to Goshen ;
and they came into the land of Goshen .
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And Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel to Goshen .
And he appeared to him ,
and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time .
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And Israel said to Joseph ,
This time let me die after seeing your face ,
because you are still alive .
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And Joseph said to his brothers ,
and to the house of his father ,
I will go up and tell Pharaoh .
And I will say to him My brothers and the house of my father ,
who were in the land of Canaan ,
have come in to me .
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And the men are shepherds of flocks for they have been men of livestock .
And their flocks and their herds ,
and all which belongs to them they have brought in .
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And it shall be ,
when Pharaoh calls to you and says ,
What is your occupation ?
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You shall say ,
Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even until now ,
both we and our fathers .
This is so that you may live in the land of Goshen .
For the abomination of Egypt is every shepherd of flocks .
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