Chapter 46

1 And Israel went with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

2 And God said to Israel in a vision of the night, "Jacob! Jacob! He said, Here I am.

3 God said, I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation;

4 I will go with you to Egypt, and I will bring you back. Joseph will cover your eyes with his hand.

5 Jacob departed from Beersheba; And the children of Israel took Jacob their father, and their children, and their wives, in the chariots which Pharaoh had sent to bring him.

6 And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his family with him.

7 And he brought his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his generation, into Egypt.

8 These are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt: Jacob and his sons. Jacob's firstborn Reuben.

9 The sons of Reuben: Chanoch and Phallah, Hezron and Harmi.

10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ogad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of the Canaanite woman.

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

12 And the sons of Judah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezrom and Hamul.

13 The sons of Issachar: Thola and Pubah, Job and Shimron.

14 And the sons of Zebulun were Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Mesopotamia, and Dinah his daughter. All the souls of his sons and his daughters are thirty-three.

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

17 And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishba, and Ishvi, and Briah, and Serach their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Malchiel.

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; she bore them to Jacob sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, Joseph and Benjamin.

20 And there were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenatha the daughter of Potipher, the priest of Heliopolis, bore him.