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Genesis 46 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Gen 46:1Yisra'el traveled with all that he had, and came to Be'er-Sheva, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Yitzchak.
Gen 46:2God spoke to Yisra'el in the visions of the night, and said, "Ya`akov, Ya`akov!" He said, "Here I am."
Gen 46:3He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Mitzrayim; for there I will make of you a great nation.
Gen 46:4I will go down with you into Mitzrayim. I will also surely bring you up again. Yosef will close your eyes."
Gen 46:5Ya`akov rose up from Be'er-Sheva, and the sons of Yisra'el carried Ya`akov, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Par`oh had sent to carry him.
Gen 46:6They took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Kana`an, and came into Mitzrayim - Ya`akov, and all his seed with him,
Gen 46:7his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Mitzrayim.

Those Who Came to Egypt

Gen 46:8These are the names of the children of Yisra'el, who came into Mitzrayim, Ya`akov and his sons: Re'uven, Ya`akov's firstborn.
Gen 46:9The sons of Re'uven: Hanokh, Pallu, Hetzron, and Karmi.
Gen 46:10The sons of Shim`on: Yemu'el, Yamin, Ohad, Yakhin, Tzochar, and Sha'ul the son of a Kana`ani woman.
Gen 46:11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari.
Gen 46:12The sons of Yehudah: `Er, Onan, Shelach, Peretz, and Zerach; but `Er and Onan died in the land of Kana`an. The sons of Peretz were Hetzron and Hamul.
Gen 46:13The sons of Yissakhar: Tola, Puvah, Yov, and Shimron.
Gen 46:14The sons of Zevulun: Sered, Elon, and Yachle'el.
Gen 46:15These are the sons of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov in Paddan-Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
Gen 46:16The sons of Gad: Tzifyon, Haggi, Shuni, Etzbon, `Eri, Arodi, and Ar'eli.
Gen 46:17The sons of Asher: Yimna, Yishvah, Yishvi, Beri`ah, and Serach their sister. The sons of Beri`ah: Hever and Malki'el.
Gen 46:18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Lavan gave to Le'ah, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov, even sixteen souls.
Gen 46:19The sons of Rachel, Ya`akov's wife: Yosef and Binyamin.
Gen 46:20To Yosef in the land of Mitzrayim were born Menashsheh and Efrayim, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera, Kohen of On, bore to him.
Gen 46:21The sons of Binyamin: Bela, Bekher, Ashbel, Gera, Na`aman, Echi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Gen 46:22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Ya`akov: all the souls were fourteen.
Gen 46:23The son of Dan: Hushim.
Gen 46:24The sons of Naftali: Yachtze'el, Guni, Yetzer, and Shillem.
Gen 46:25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Lavan gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov: all the souls were seven.
Gen 46:26All the souls who came with Ya`akov into Mitzrayim, who were his direct descendants, besides Ya`akov's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
Gen 46:27The sons of Yosef, who were born to him in Mitzrayim, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Ya`akov, who came into Mitzrayim, were seventy.
Gen 46:28He sent Yehudah before him to Yosef, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Gen 46:29Yosef made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisra'el, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen 46:30Yisra'el said to Yosef, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
Gen 46:31Yosef said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Par`oh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Kana`an, have come to me.
Gen 46:32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'
Gen 46:33It will happen, when Par`oh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'
Gen 46:34that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Mitzrim."
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