Beresheet, starting at chapter 46
{46:1} Yisra'el took his journey with all that he had, and came to
Be'er-Sheva, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father,
Yitzchak. {46:2} God spoke to Yisra'el in the visions of the night,
and said, "Ya`akov, Ya`akov!"
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 Mitzrayim; for there I will make of you a great
nation. {46:4} I will go down with you into Mitzrayim. I will also
surely bring you up again. Yosef will close your eyes."
{46:5} Ya`akov rose up from Be'er-Sheva, and the sons of Yisra'el
carried Ya`akov, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in
the wagons which Par`oh had sent to carry him. {46:6} They took their
cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Kana`an,
and came into Mitzrayim - Ya`akov, and all his seed with him, {46:7}
his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons'
daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Mitzrayim.
{46:8} These are the names of the children of Yisra'el, who came
into Mitzrayim, Ya`akov and his sons: Re'uven, Ya`akov's firstborn.
{46:9} The sons of Re'uven: Hanokh, Pallu, Hetzron, and Karmi. {46:10}
The sons of Shim`on: Yemu'el, Yamin, Ohad, Yakhin, Tzochar, and Sha'ul
the son of a Kana`ani woman. {46:11} The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat,
and Merari. {46:12} The sons of Yehudah: `Er, Onan, Shelach, Peretz,
and Zerach; but `Er and Onan died in the land of Kana`an. The sons of
Peretz were Hetzron and Hamul. {46:13} The sons of Yissakhar: Tola,
Puvah, Yov, and Shimron. {46:14} The sons of Zevulun: Sered, Elon, and
Yachle'el. {46:15} These are the sons of Le'ah, whom she bore to
Ya`akov 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:
Tzifyon, Haggi, Shuni, Etzbon, `Eri, Arodi, and Ar'eli. {46:17} The
sons of Asher: Yimna, Yishvah, Yishvi, Beri`ah, and Serach their
sister. The sons of Beri`ah: Hever and Malki'el. {46:18} These are the
sons of Zilpah, whom Lavan gave to Le'ah, his daughter, and these she
bore to Ya`akov, even sixteen souls. {46:19} The sons of Rachel,
Ya`akov's wife: Yosef and Binyamin. {46:20} To Yosef in the land of
Mitzrayim were born Menashsheh and Efrayim, whom Asenat, the daughter
of Potiphera, [1>]Kohen[<1] of On, bore to him. {46:21} The sons of
Binyamin: Bela, Bekher, Ashbel, Gera, Na`aman, Echi, Rosh, Muppim,
Huppim, and Ard. {46:22} These are the sons of Rachel, who were born
to Ya`akov: all the souls were fourteen. {46:23} The sons of Dan:
Hushim. {46:24} The sons of Naftali: Yachtze'el, Guni, Yetzer, and
Shillem. {46:25} These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Lavan gave to
Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov: all the souls
were seven. {46:26} All the souls who came with Ya`akov into
Mitzrayim, who were his direct descendants, besides Ya`akov's sons'
wives, all the souls were sixty-six. {46:27} The sons of Yosef, who
were born to him in Mitzrayim, were two souls. All the souls of the
house of Ya`akov, who came into Mitzrayim, were seventy.
{46:28} He sent Yehudah before him to Yosef, to show the way before
him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. {46:29} Yosef
made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisra'el, his father, in
Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on
his neck a good while. {46:30} Yisra'el said to Yosef, "Now let me
die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive." {46:31}
Yosef said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up,
and speak with Par`oh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my
father's house, who were in the land of Kana`an, have come to me.
{46:32} These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle,
and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they
have.' {46:33} It will happen, when Par`oh summons you, and will say,
'What is your occupation?' {46:34} that you shall say, 'Your servants
have been keepers of cattle 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 Mitzrim."
{47:1} Then Yosef went in and told Par`oh, and said, "My father and
my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own,
have come out of the land of Kana`an; and, behold, they are in the
land of Goshen." {47:2} From among his brothers he took five men, and
presented them to Par`oh. {47:3} Par`oh said to his brothers, "What is
your occupation?"
They said to Par`oh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our
fathers." {47:4} They said to Par`oh, "We have come to sojourn in the
land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the
famine is severe in the land of Kana`an. Now therefore, please let
your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
{47:5} Par`oh spoke to Yosef, saying, "Your father and your brothers
have come to you. {47:6} The land of Mitzrayim 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 cattle."
{47:7} Yosef brought in Ya`akov, his father, and set him before
Par`oh, and Ya`akov blessed Par`oh. {47:8} Par`oh said to Ya`akov,
"How many are the days of the years of your life?"
{47:9} Ya`akov said to Par`oh, "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} Ya`akov blessed Par`oh, and went out from the
presence of Par`oh.
{47:11} Yosef placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a
possession in the land of Mitzrayim, in the best of the land, in the
land of Ra`meses, as Par`oh had commanded. {47:12} Yosef 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 Mitzrayim and the land of Kana`an fainted
by reason of the famine. {47:14} Yosef gathered up all the money that
was found in the land of Mitzrayim, and in the land of Kana`an, for
the grain which they bought: and Yosef brought the money into Par`oh's
house. {47:15} When the money was all spent in the land of Mitzrayim,
and in the land of Kana`an, all the Mitzrim came to Yosef, and said,
"Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money
fails."
{47:16} Yosef said, "Give your cattle; and I will give you for your
cattle, if money fails."
{47:17} They brought their cattle to Yosef, and Yosef 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 cattle 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 cattle 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 Par`oh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and
that the land won't be desolate."
{47:20} So Yosef bought all the land of Mitzrayim for Par`oh, for
the Mitzrim sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on
them, and the land became Par`oh's. {47:21} As for the people, he
moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Mitzrayim even
to the other end of it. {47:22} Only he didn't buy the land of the
[1>]Kohanim[<1], for the [2>]Kohanim[<2] had a portion from Par`oh,
and ate their portion which Par`oh gave them. That is why they didn't
sell their land. {47:23} Then Yosef said to the people, "Behold, I
have bought you and your land today for Par`oh. 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 Par`oh, 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 Par`oh's servants."
{47:26} Yosef made it a statute concerning the land of Mitzrayim to
this day, that Par`oh should have the fifth. Only the land of the
[3>]Kohanim[<3] alone didn't become Par`oh's.
{47:27} Yisra'el lived in the land of Mitzrayim, in the land of
Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were
fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. {47:28} Ya`akov lived in the
land of Mitzrayim seventeen years. So the days of Ya`akov, the years
of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. {47:29} The time drew
near that Yisra'el must die, and he called his son Yosef, 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 Mitzrayim, {47:30} but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall
carry me out of Mitzrayim, 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. Yisra'el bowed himself on the bed's head.
{48:1} It happened after these things, that one said to Yosef,
"Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons,
Menashsheh and Efrayim. {48:2} One told Ya`akov, and said, "Behold,
your son Yosef comes to you," and Yisra'el strengthened himself, and
sat on the bed. {48:3} Ya`akov said to Yosef, "El Shaddai appeared to
me at Luz in the land of Kana`an, 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 Mitzrayim before I came to you
into Mitzrayim, are mine; Efrayim and Menashsheh, even as Re'uven and
Shim`on, 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 Kana`an in the way, when
there was still some distance to come to Efrat, and I buried her there
in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem)."
{48:8} Yisra'el saw Yosef's sons, and said, "Who are these?"
{48:9} Yosef 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 Yisra'el 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} Yisra'el said to Yosef, "I didn't think I would see your face,
and, behold, God has let me see your seed also." {48:12} Yosef brought
them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to
the [1>]eretz[<1]. {48:13} Yosef took them both, Efrayim in his right
hand toward Yisra'el's left hand, and Menashsheh in his left hand
toward Yisra'el's right hand, and brought them near to him. {48:14}
Yisra'el stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Efrayim's head,
who was the younger, and his left hand on Menashsheh's head, guiding
his hands knowingly, for Menashsheh was the firstborn. {48:15} He
blessed Yosef, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Avraham and
Yitzchak 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
Avraham and Yitzchak. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of
the [2>]eretz[<2]."
{48:17} When Yosef saw that his father laid his right hand on the
head of Efrayim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to
remove it from Efrayim's head to Menashsheh's head. {48:18} Yosef 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 Yisra'el bless, saying, 'God make you as Efrayim and as
Menashsheh'" He set Efrayim before Menashsheh. {48:21} Yisra'el said
to Yosef, "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 Amori with my sword and with my bow."
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Footnotes:
[1] {46:20} priest
[1] {47:22} priests
[2] {47:22} priests
[3] {47:26} priests
[1] {48:12} earth
[2] {48:16} earth
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