¹Israel set out with all that was his, and came to Beer-sheba, and he sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

²God said to Israel in the visions of the night, "Jacob, Jacob." He said, "Here I am."

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

⁴I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will bring you up also surely; and Joseph will set his hand over your eyes."

⁵Jacob rose from Beer-sheba, and the children of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

⁶They took their livestock and the property they had gathered in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt: Jacob and all his seed with him.

⁷His sons, and the sons of his sons with him, his daughters, and the daughters of his sons, and all his seed: he brought them with him to Egypt.

⁸These are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt: Jacob and his sons. Reuben was the firstborn of Jacob.

⁹And the children of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.

¹⁰And the children of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar, and Shaul the son of the Canaanite woman.

¹¹And the children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

¹²And the children of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the children of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

¹³And the children of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Iob and Shimron.

¹⁴And the children of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.

¹⁵These are the children of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, along with Dinah his daughter. In all, his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three beings.

¹⁶And the children of Gad: Zephon and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli.

¹⁷And the children of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the children of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.

¹⁸These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to Leah his daughter; she bore these to Jacob: sixteen beings.

¹⁹The children of Rachel, the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁰Born to Joseph in the land of Egypt were Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, bore to him.

²¹And the children of Benjamin: Bela and Beker and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

²²These are the children of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the beings were fourteen.

²³And the children of Dan: Hushim.

²⁴And the children of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

²⁵These are the children of Bilhah, whom Laban had given to Rachel his daughter; she bore these to Jacob: seven beings in all.

²⁶All the beings who came with Jacob to Egypt, those who came out of his thigh, apart from the wives of the sons of Jacob: all the beings were sixty-six.

²⁷And the children of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two beings. All the beings of the household of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.

²⁸He sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to point out the way ahead of him to Goshen; and they came to the land of Goshen.

²⁹Joseph yoked his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father. He appeared to him, fell on his neck, and wept on his neck for a long while.

³⁰Israel said to Joseph, "Let me die this time, after I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

³¹Joseph said to his brothers and to the house of his father, "I will go up and I will 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 to me.

³²And the men are shepherds of the flock, for they have been men of livestock; and they have brought their flock and their cattle and all that is theirs.'

³³And it will be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your work?'

³⁴you will say, 'Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth until now, both we and our fathers' — so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd of the flock is an abomination to the Egyptians."