Genesis 46 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt

(Exo 6:14–25 )

Gen 46:1So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Gen 46:2

Gen 46:2And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”

Gen 46:3

Gen 46:3Then he 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.

Gen 46:4

Gen 46:4I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.”

Gen 46:5

Gen 46:5Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Gen 46:6

Gen 46:6They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

Gen 46:7

Gen 46:7his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

Gen 46:8

Gen 46:8Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,

Gen 46:9

Gen 46:9and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

Gen 46:10

Gen 46:10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

Gen 46:11

Gen 46:11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Gen 46:12

Gen 46:12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, 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

Gen 46:13The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron.

Gen 46:14

Gen 46:14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

Gen 46:15

Gen 46:15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

Gen 46:16

Gen 46:16The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

Gen 46:17

Gen 46:17The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

Gen 46:18

Gen 46:18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons.

Gen 46:19

Gen 46:19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

Gen 46:20

Gen 46:20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.

Gen 46:21

Gen 46:21And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Gen 46:22

Gen 46:22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all.

Gen 46:23

Gen 46:23The son[fn] of Dan: Hushim.

Gen 46:24

Gen 46:24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

Gen 46:25

Gen 46:25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all.

Gen 46:26

Gen 46:26All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all.

Gen 46:27

Gen 46:27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

Jacob and Joseph Reunited

Gen 46:28

Gen 46:28He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

Gen 46:29

Gen 46:29Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

Gen 46:30

Gen 46:30Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”

Gen 46:31

Gen 46:31Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and 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

Gen 46:32And the men are 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

Gen 46:33When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’

Gen 46:34

Gen 46:34you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

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