Genesis, starting at chapter 46
{46:1} Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba,
and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. {46:2} God
spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!"
He said, "Here I am."
{46:3} 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.
{46:4} I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring
you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
{46:5} 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. {46:6} 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, {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 children of Israel, who came into
Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. {46:9} The sons
of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. {46:10} The sons of
Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanite woman. {46:11} The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and
Merari. {46:12} 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. {46:13} The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and
Shimron. {46:14} The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
{46:15} 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. {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 Jacob, even sixteen
souls. {46:19} The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
{46:20} To Joseph 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 Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. {46:23} The son
of Dan: Hushim. {46:24} The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer,
and Shillem. {46:25} These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to
Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were
seven. {46:26} All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were
his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls
were sixty-six. {46:27} The 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.
{46:28} He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before
him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. {46:29} Joseph
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. {46:30} Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die,
since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
{46:31} Joseph 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 an abomination to the Egyptians."
{47:1} Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father
and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they
own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the
land of Goshen." {47:2} From among his brothers he took five men, and
presented them to Pharaoh. {47:3} Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What
is your occupation?"
They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our
fathers." {47:4} They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as
foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants'
flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore,
please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
{47:5} Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your
brothers have come to you. {47:6} The land of Egypt is before you.
Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let
them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them,
then put them in charge of my livestock."
{47:7} Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before
Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. {47:8} Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How
many are the days of the years of your life?"
{47:9} Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my
pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the
days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days
of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
pilgrimage." {47:10} Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the
presence of Pharaoh.
{47:11} Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land
of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. {47:12} Joseph nourished his
father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread,
according to their families.
{47:13} There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very
severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by
reason of the famine. {47:14} Joseph gathered up all the money that
was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the
grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's
house. {47:15} When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and
in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said,
"Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money
fails."
{47:16} Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you
food for your livestock, if your money is gone."
{47:17} They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them
bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the
herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for
all their livestock for that year. {47:18} When that year was ended,
they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide
from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock
are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our
bodies, and our lands. {47:19} Why should we die before your eyes,
both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our
land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and
not die, and that the land won't be desolate."
{47:20} So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for
every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was
severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's. {47:21} As for the
people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of
Egypt even to the other end of it. {47:22} Only he didn't buy the land
of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate
their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell
their land. {47:23} Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have
bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for
you, and you shall sow the land. {47:24} It will happen at the
harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will
be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your
households, and for food for your little ones."
{47:25} They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in
the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."
{47:26} Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to
this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the
priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.
{47:27} Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen;
and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and
multiplied exceedingly. {47:28} Jacob lived in the land of Egypt
seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one
hundred forty-seven years. {47:29} The time drew near that Israel must
die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have
found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and
deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt, {47:30}
but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and
bury me in their burying place."
He said, "I will do as you have said."
{47:31} He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed
himself on the bed's head.
{48:1} It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph,
"Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh
and Ephraim. {48:2} Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son
Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the
bed. {48:3} Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz
in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, {48:4} and said to me, 'Behold,
I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a
company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for
an everlasting possession.' {48:5} Now your two sons, who were born to
you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine;
Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. {48:6}
Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours.
They will be called after the name of their brothers in their
inheritance. {48:7} As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by
me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some
distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to
Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
{48:8} Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"
{48:9} Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has
given me here."
He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them." {48:10}
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He
brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
{48:11} Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face,
and behold, God has let me see your seed also." {48:12} Joseph brought
them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to
the earth. {48:13} Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand
toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward
Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him. {48:14} Israel
stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was
the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands
knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. {48:15} He blessed Joseph,
and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk,
the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, {48:16} the angel
who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be
named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them
grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
{48:17} When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the
head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to
remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. {48:18} Joseph said
to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your
right hand on his head."
{48:19} His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He
also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his
younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a
multitude of nations." {48:20} He blessed them that day, saying, "In
you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as
Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh. {48:21} Israel said to
Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you
again to the land of your fathers. {48:22} Moreover I have given to
you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of
the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
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