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Genesis 46 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Jacob Moves to Egypt

(Exo 6:14–25 )
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So Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:2 - And God spoke to Israel [fn]in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - And He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:4 - “I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also bring you up again; and Joseph will [fn]close your eyes with his hand.”
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Then Jacob arose 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - And they took their livestock and their possessions, which they had accumulated in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:7 - his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt.
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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel—of Jacob and his sons—who were coming to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:9 - The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:10 - The sons of Simeon: [fn]Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and [fn]Jachin and [fn]Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:11 - The sons of Levi: [fn]Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12 - The sons of 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:13 - The sons of Issachar: Tola and [fn]Puvvah and [fn]Iob and Shimron.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:14 - The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; [fn]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
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The sons of Gad: [fn]Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and [fn]Ezbon, Eri and [fn]Arodi and Areli.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:17 - The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.
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The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:21 - The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, [fn]Ehi and Rosh, [fn]Muppim and [fn]Huppim and Ard.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all.
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The sons of Dan: [fn]Hushim.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:24 - The sons of Naphtali: [fn]Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and [fn]Shillem.
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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, who came out of his loins, excluding the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:27 - and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were [fn]two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.
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Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29 - And Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared [fn]before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:30 - Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now I can die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh and say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:32 - and the men are shepherds, for they have been [fn]keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:33 - “And it will be when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - then you shall say, ‘Your servants have been [fn]keepers of livestock from our youth and until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may [fn]live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
LSB Footnotes
Lit in the visions
Lit put his hand on
In Num 26:12 and 1 Chr 4:24, Nemuel
In 1 Chr 4:24, Jarib
In Num 26:13 and 1 Chr 4:24, Zerah
In 1 Chr 6:16, Gershom
In Num 26:23, Puvah; in 1 Chr 7:1, Puah
In Num 26:24 and 1 Chr 7:1, Jashub
Lit all the souls of
In Num 26:15, Zephon
In Num 26:16, Ozni
In Num 26:17, Arod
In Num 26:38, Ahiram
In Num 26:39, Shephupham; in 1 Chr 7:12, Shuppim
In Num 26:39, Hupham
In Num 26:42, Shuham
In 1 Chr 7:13, Jahziel
In 1 Chr 7:13, Shallum
Lit two souls
Lit to
Lit men
Lit men
Lit dwell
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