GENESIS Chapter 46
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46:1 Jacob packed
up all he had and went to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God
of his father Isaac. |
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46:2 God spoke to
him in a vision at night and called, "Jacob, Jacob!" "Yes,
here I am," he answered. |
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46:3 "I am
God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go to
Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there. |
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46:4 I will go with
you to Egypt, and I will bring your descendants back to this land. Joseph
will be with you when you die." |
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46:5 Jacob set out
from Beersheba. His sons put him, their small children, and their wives in
the wagons which the king of Egypt had sent. |
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46:6 They took
their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to
Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him: |
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46:7 his sons, his
grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters. |
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46:8 The members of
Jacob's family who went to Egypt with him were his oldest son Reuben |
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46:9 and Reuben's
sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. |
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46:10 Simeon and his
sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. |
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46:11 Levi and his
sons: Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari. |
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46:12 Judah and his
sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah.
(Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.)
Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.
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46:13 Issachar and
his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. |
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46:14 Zebulun and his sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. |
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46:15 These are the
sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides his daughter Dinah.
In all, his descendants by Leah numbered thirty-three. |
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46:16 Gad and his
sons: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arod, and Areli. |
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46:17 Asher and his
sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister
Serah. Beriah's sons were
Heber and Malchiel. |
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46:18 These sixteen
are the descendants of Jacob by Zilpah, the slave
woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. |
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46:19 Jacob's wife
Rachel bore him two sons: Joseph and Benjamin. |
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46:20
In Egypt Joseph
had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, by Asenath, the
daughter of Potiphera, a priest in Heliopolis. |
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46:21 Benjamin's
sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. |
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46:22 These fourteen
are the descendants of Jacob by Rachel. |
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46:23 Dan and his
son Hushim. |
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46:24 Naphtali and
his sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. |
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46:25 These seven
are the descendants of Jacob by Bilhah, the slave
woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. |
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46:26 The total
number of the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt was sixty-six,
not including his sons' wives. |
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46:27 Two sons were
born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to seventy the total number of Jacob's
family who went there. |
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46:28 Jacob sent
Judah ahead to ask Joseph to meet them in Goshen. When they arrived, |
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46:29 Joseph got in
his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph
threw his arms around his father's neck and cried for a long time. |
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46:30 Jacob said to
Joseph, "I am ready to die, now that I have seen you and know that you
are still alive." |
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46:31
Then Joseph
said to his brothers and the rest of his father's family, "I must go and
tell the king that my brothers and all my father's family, who were living in
Canaan, have come to me. |
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46:32 I will tell
him that you are shepherds and take care of livestock and that you have
brought your flocks and herds and everything else that belongs to you. |
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46:33 When the king
calls for you and asks what your occupation is, |
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46:34 be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock
all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live
in the region of Goshen." Joseph said this because Egyptians will have
nothing to do with shepherds. |
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