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Gen.|46:1|-|So Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba and |1|offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Gen.|46:2|-|And God spoke to Israel in the |a|visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here I am.
Gen.|46:3|-|And He said, I am |1|God, the God of your |a|father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a |b|great nation there.
Gen.|46:4|-|I Myself will |a|go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.
Gen.|46:5|-|And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the |a|wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Gen.|46:6|-|And they took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and |a|Jacob and all his offspring with him came to Egypt.
Gen.|46:7|-|His sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his offspring he brought with him to Egypt.
Gen.|46:8|-|And these are the |a|names of the children of Israel, who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Jacob’s firstborn, Reuben.
Gen.|46:9|-|And the sons of |a|Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.
Gen.|46:10|-|And the sons of |a|Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Gen.|46:11|-|And the sons of |a|Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Gen.|46:12|-|And the sons of |a|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.
Gen.|46:13|-|And the sons of |a|Issachar: Tola and Puvah and Iob and Shimron.
Gen.|46:14|-|And the sons of |a|Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
Gen.|46:15|-|These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, along with his daughter |a|Dinah. His sons and his daughters were thirty-three |1|persons in all.
Gen.|46:16|-|And the sons of |a|Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli.
Gen.|46:17|-|And the sons of |a|Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Gen.|46:18|-|These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen persons.
Gen.|46:19|-|The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen.|46:20|-|And to |a|Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Potiphera priest of On bore to him.
Gen.|46:21|-|And the sons of |a|Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
Gen.|46:22|-|These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob, fourteen persons in all.
Gen.|46:23|-|And the sons of |a|Dan: Hushim.
Gen.|46:24|-|And the sons of |a|Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.
Gen.|46:25|-|These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob, seven persons in all.
Gen.|46:26|-|All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all.
Gen.|46:27|-|And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were |a|seventy.
Gen.|46:28|-|And he sent Judah before him to Joseph to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came to the land of Goshen.
Gen.|46:29|-|And Joseph made his chariot ready and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father. And when he appeared before him, he fell on his |a|neck and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen.|46:30|-|And Israel said to Joseph, Let me die now since I have |a|seen your face and know that you are still alive.
Gen.|46:31|-|And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, I will go up and |a|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.
Gen.|46:32|-|And the men are |a|shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.
Gen.|46:33|-|And when Pharaoh calls you and says, What is your occupation?
Gen.|46:34|-|You shall say, Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers; that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an |a|abomination to the Egyptians.
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