Bereshet (Genesis) - Chapter 46

46:1 Yisrael travelled with all that he had, and came to Be'ersheba, and offered sacrifices to God of his father, Isaac. 46:2 God spoke to Yisrael in the visions of the night, and said, "Ya'aqub, Ya'aqub!"

He said, "Here I am."

46:3 He said, "I am God, God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. 46:4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Yoseph will close your eyes."

46:5 Ya'aqub rose up from Be'ersheba, and the sons of Yisrael carried Ya'aqub, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 46:6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Ya'aqub, and all his seed with him, 46:7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

46:8 These are the names of the B'nai Yisrael, who came into Egypt, Ya'aqub and his sons: Reuben, Ya'aqub's firstborn. 46:9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 46:10 The sons of Simeon: Yemuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. 46:11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 46:12 The sons of Yudah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 46:13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. 46:14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Yahleel. 46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Ya'aqub in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. 46:16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 46:17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya'aqub, even sixteen souls. 46:19 The sons of Rachel, Ya'aqub's wife: Yoseph and Benjamin. 46:20 To Yoseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. 46:21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Ya"aqub: all the souls were fourteen. 46:23 The son of Dan: Hushim. 46:24 The sons of Naphtali: Yahzeel, Guni, Yezer, and Shillem. 46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya'aqub: all the souls were seven. 46:26 All the souls who came with Ya'aqub into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Ya'aqub's sons" wives, all the souls were sixty-six. 46:27 The sons of Yoseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Ya"aqub, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

46:28 He sent Yudah before him to Yoseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 46:29 Yoseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisrael, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 46:30 Yisrael said to Yoseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

46:31 Yoseph 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. 46:32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have." 46:33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?" 46:34 that 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 detestable to the Egyptians."