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Genesis - ch 46 v 1 - 20
- Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
- God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."
- He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
- I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
- Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
- They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,
- his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
- These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
- The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
- The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
- The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
- The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
- The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
- These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
- The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
- The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
- These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
- The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
- To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
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