Genesis 46

1Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.Cross-references: Gen 4:4 · Gen 8:20 · Gen 12:8 · Gen 21:14 · Gen 21:31 · Gen 21:33 · +12 more

2God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Gen 15:13 · Gen 22:1 · Gen 22:11 · Gen 31:11 · Ex 3:3 · +13 more

3He 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.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 15:1 · Gen 15:13 · Gen 18:18 · Gen 22:17 · +13 more

4I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”Cross-references: Gen 15:14 · Gen 28:15 · Gen 48:21 · Gen 50:1 · Gen 50:5 · Gen 50:13 · +3 more

5Jacob 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.Cross-references: Gen 31:17 · Gen 45:19 · Gen 45:21 · Gen 45:27 · Ex 10:24 · Ex 10:26 · +1 more

6They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,Cross-references: Gen 15:13 · Num 20:15 · Deut 10:22 · Deut 26:5 · Josh 24:4 · 1Sam 12:8 · +3 more

7his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.

8These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.Cross-references: Gen 29:1 · Gen 29:32 · Gen 35:22 · Gen 49:1 · Ex 1:1 · Ex 6:14 · +7 more

9The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.Cross-references: Gen 28:1 · Gen 29:33 · Gen 34:25 · Gen 34:30 · Gen 49:5 · Ex 6:15 · +6 more

11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.Cross-references: Gen 29:34 · Gen 49:5 · Ex 6:16 · Num 3:17 · Num 4:1 · Num 8:1 · +8 more

12The 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.Cross-references: Gen 29:35 · Gen 38:1 · Gen 38:7 · Gen 38:10 · Gen 38:24 · Gen 49:8 · +14 more

13The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.Cross-references: Gen 30:14 · Gen 35:23 · Gen 49:14 · Num 1:8 · Num 1:28 · Num 26:23 · +4 more

14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.Cross-references: Gen 30:19 · Gen 49:13 · Num 1:9 · Num 1:30 · Num 26:26 · Deut 33:18 · +1 more

15These 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.Cross-references: Gen 25:20 · Gen 29:32 · Gen 30:17 · Gen 34:1 · Gen 35:23 · Gen 49:3 · +5 more

16The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.Cross-references: Gen 30:11 · Gen 35:26 · Gen 49:19 · Num 1:11 · Num 1:24 · Num 26:15 · +3 more

17The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.Cross-references: Gen 30:13 · Gen 35:26 · Gen 49:20 · Num 1:13 · Num 1:40 · Num 26:44 · +3 more

18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.Cross-references: Gen 29:24 · Gen 30:9 · Gen 35:26 · Ex 1:4

19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.Cross-references: Gen 29:18 · Gen 30:24 · Gen 35:16 · Gen 35:24 · Gen 37:1 · Gen 39:1 · +10 more

20To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.Cross-references: Gen 41:45 · Gen 41:50 · Gen 48:4 · Gen 48:13 · Gen 48:20 · Num 1:32 · +4 more

21The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.Cross-references: Gen 49:27 · Num 1:11 · Num 1:36 · Num 26:38 · Deut 33:12 · 1Chr 7:6 · +1 more

22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

23The son of Dan: Hushim.Cross-references: Gen 30:6 · Gen 35:25 · Gen 49:16 · Num 1:12 · Num 1:38 · Num 10:25 · +5 more

24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.Cross-references: Gen 30:7 · Gen 35:25 · Gen 49:21 · Num 1:15 · Num 1:42 · Num 26:48 · +5 more

25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.Cross-references: Gen 29:29 · Gen 30:3 · Gen 35:22 · Gen 35:25 · Ex 1:2

26All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.Cross-references: Gen 35:11 · Ex 1:5 · Judg 8:30

27The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.Cross-references: Ex 1:5 · Ex 24:1 · Deut 10:22 · Acts 7:14

28Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.Cross-references: Gen 31:21 · Gen 43:8 · Gen 44:16 · Gen 45:10 · Gen 46:34 · Gen 49:8

29Joseph 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.Cross-references: Gen 33:4 · Gen 41:43 · Gen 45:14 · Gen 45:19 · Gen 45:21 · Luke 15:20 · +1 more

30Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”Cross-references: Gen 45:28 · Luke 2:29

31Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.Cross-references: Gen 45:16 · Gen 47:1 · Acts 18:3 · Heb 2:11

32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’Cross-references: Gen 4:2 · Gen 9:20 · Gen 31:18 · Gen 37:2 · Gen 45:10 · Gen 46:34 · +9 more

33It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’Cross-references: Gen 46:32 · Gen 47:2 · Jonah 1:8

34that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock 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 Egyptians.”Cross-references: Gen 30:35 · Gen 34:5 · Gen 37:12 · Gen 43:32 · Gen 45:10 · Gen 46:32 · +1 more