Israel went with all that was his. And when he was come to Beer-saba, he offered sacrifices unto the God of Isaac his father. And God said unto him by night in a vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. And he said: I am the LORD God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt: for there will I make thee a great nation. I will go down with thee into Egypt, and will bring thee up also: and Joseph shall lay his hands upon thine eyes. Then Jacob departed from Babylon, and the children of Israel brought Jacob their father, with their little children and their wives, in the chariots which Pharaoh had sent to bring him. And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan. And they came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him, his children and his children's children with him, his daughters, and his children's daughters, and all his seed [, whom he brought with him into Egypt]. These are the names of the children of Israel who came in Egypt: Jacob and his sons. The firstborn son of Jacob, Reuben. The children of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Charmi. The children of Si
meon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar and Saul, the son of the Cananaean 2) wife. The children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. The children of Judah: Ger, Onan, Selah, Perez and Zerah. But Ger and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. The children of Jesashar: Thola, Phuva, Job and Semron. The children of Zebulun: Sered, Elon and Jahleel. These are the children of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Mesopotamia, with his daughter Dinah, making all together, with sons and daughters, three and thirty souls. The children Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Suni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli. The children of Asher: Jemna, Jesna, Jesui, Bria, and Serah their sister. But the children of Bria: Heber and Malchiel. These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and bare Jacob these sixteen souls. The children of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. And unto Joseph were born in the land of Egypt Manasseh and Ephraim, which bare him Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest of On.
2) Jenaer and Erlanger: canan.
The children of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Asbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Ros, Muppim, Huppim and Ard. These are the children of Rachel, born to Jacob, all fourteen souls. The children of Dan: Husim. The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer and Sillem. These are the children Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and Jacob bore these seven souls. All the souls that came with Jacob in Egypt, which went out from his loins (except the wives of his children), are all together six and threescore souls. And the children of Joseph that were born in Egypt were two souls. So that all the souls of the house of Jacob that came into Egypt were seventy. And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to shew him the way to Goshen: and they came into the land of Goshen. Then Joseph harnessed his chariot, and went up to his father Israel.
toward Gosen. And when he saw him, he fell upon his neck, and wept upon his neck very sore. And Israel said unto Joseph, I will gladly die, when I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive. And Joseph said unto his brethren, and to his father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and say unto him: My brethren, and my father's house, are come unto me out of the land of Canaan, and are herdsmen: for they are men that handle cattle; their flocks and their herds, and all that they have, have they brought with them. Now when Pharaoh shall call you, and say, What is your trade? then ye shall say, Thy servants are cattlemen, from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers, that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen. For the shepherding of cattle is an abomination to the Egyptians.