1 Israel left with all he owned and reached Beersheba where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 God spoke to Israel in visions that he had during the night, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am," he said.
3 "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
4 I will go with you to Egypt and I will bring you back again and Joseph's hand will close your eyes."
5 Jacob left Beersheba and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father with their little children and their wives in the wagons that Joseph had sent to fetch him.
6 They also took their flocks and all that they had acquired in Canaan. And so it was that Jacob came to Egypt and with him all his family,
7 his sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters, in short all his children he took with him to Egypt.
8 Here are the names of the descendants of Israel who came to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn,
9 and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
10 the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, whose mother was a Canaanite.
11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 The 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.
13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.
14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jah'leel
15 (these are the sons of Leah, Jacob's wife, who were born in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three).
16 The sons of Gad: Zip'ion, Haggai, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Malchiel.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and Jacob was their father - sixteen persons.
19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whose mother was Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.
21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard
22 (these are the sons of Rachel - fourteen).
23 The children of Dan: Hushim.
24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem
25 (these are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and Jacob was their father - seven persons in all).
26 The total number of all the persons who came to Egypt with Jacob, all who were of his own blood, not counting the wives of his sons, was sixty-six.
27 With the two sons born to Joseph in Egypt, the total number of Jacob's household that came to Egypt was seventy.
28 Jacob sent Judah ahead to let Joseph know he was coming and that he would soon arrive in the land of Goshen.
29 Joseph got his chariot ready in order to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself, threw his arms around his father and wept on his shoulder for a long time.
30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now I can die, for I have seen your face and know you are alive."
31 After that Joseph said to his brothers and all his father's family, "I will go and give the news to Pharaoh and tell him that my brothers and my father's family who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
32 I will also tell him that you are shepherds, keeping livestock, and have brought your flocks and cattle and all your belongings.
33 So when Pharaoh summons you and says: 'What is your occupation?'
34 you will say: 'Your servants keep flocks and herds; it has been so since our youth, and for our fathers before us.' Then you will settle in the land of Goshen, for the Egyptians detest all shepherds."
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Genesis 46 reports the journey of Jacob and his family to Egypt, where Joseph awaits them to save them from the hunger that plagued the earth. Jacob offers sacrifices to God in Beer-Sheba before leaving and, upon arriving in Egypt, he is presented to Pharaoh. The five verses below were selected for their relevance with the topics covered in this chapter.
Genesis 28:13-15: "And behold, the Lord was upon it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy Father, and the God of Isaac; this land in which you are lying down, I will give you and yours Descent. And your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and will extend to the West, and the East, and to the north, and to the south; and in you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed. Behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you are, and I will make you make this earth; for I will not let you, until I have fulfilled what I have told you. " Jacob's journey and his family to Egypt is an example of God's faithfulness to fulfill his promises of protection and blessing to Abraham's offspring.
Exodus 1:7: "And the children of Israel fruited, and increased a lot, and multiplied, and were strengthened greatly; so that the earth filled with them." The fulfillment of God's promise that Abraham's offspring would be numerous begins to be seen when Jacob and his family arrive in Egypt.
Exodus 20:12: "Honor your Father and your Mother, that your days may be leaning on the earth that the Lord your God gives you." Jacob honored his father and grandfather before him, and now he and his family are being blessed by God's faithfulness to these promises.
Exodus 23:25: "And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless your bread and your water; and I will take away the sickness." God's blessing on Jacob and his family is evident in the fact that they found a place to live in Egypt during hunger and were received by Pharaoh.
Joshua 24:15: "But if it seems evil to you to your eyes to serve the Lord, I chose today to those who serve; if to the gods whom they served your parents, who were in the river, or to the gods of the Amorites, in whose dwelling land But I and I will serve the Lord. " Jacob's decision and his family of trusting God and following his plans is an example for us how we should trust God in all circumstances of life.
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