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And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac .
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And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said , Jacob , Jacob ! And he said , Here am I.
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And he said , I am ùGod, the God of thy father : fear not to go down to Egypt ; for I will there make of thee a great nation .
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I will go down with thee to Egypt , and I will also certainly bring thee up; and Joseph shall put his hand on thine eyes .
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And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father , and their little ones, and their wives , on the waggons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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And they took their cattle , and their goods which they had acquired in the land of Canaan , and came to Egypt , Jacob and all his seed with him;
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his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt .
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And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt : Jacob and his sons. Jacob 's firstborn , Reuben .
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And the sons of Reuben : Enoch , and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
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-- And the sons of Simeon : Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
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-- And the sons of Levi : Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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-- And the sons of Judah : Er , and Onan , and Shelah , and Pherez, and Zerah ; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan . And the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
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-- And the sons of Issachar : Tola, and Puah, and Job, and Shimron.
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-- And the sons of Zebulun : Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
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-- These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram ; and his daughter, Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty -three.
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And the sons of Gad : Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
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-- And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Jishvah, and Jishvi, and Beriah; and Serah their sister ; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
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-- These are the sons of Zilpah , whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob : sixteen souls .
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The sons of Rachel Jacob 's wife : Joseph and Benjamin .
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And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim , whom Asnath bore to him, the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On.
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-- And the sons of Benjamin : Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman , Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
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-- These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob : all the souls were fourteen .
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And the sons of Dan : Hushim.
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-- And the sons of Naphtali : Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
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-- These are the sons of Bilhah , whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob : all the souls were seven .
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All the souls that came with Jacob to Egypt , that had come out of his loins, besides Jacob 's sons' wives : all the souls were sixty -six.
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And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt , were two souls . All the souls of the house of Jacob that came to Egypt were seventy.
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And he sent Judah before him to Joseph , to give notice before he came to Goshen . And they came into the land of Goshen .
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Then Joseph yoked his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father , to Goshen , and he presented himself to him; and he fell on his neck , and wept on his neck a good while.
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And Israel said to Joseph , Now let me die , after I have seen thy face , since thou still livest.
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And Joseph said to his brethren and to his father 's house , I will go up , and tell Pharaoh , and say to him, My brethren and my father 's house , who were in the land of Canaan , are come to me;
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and the men are shepherds , for they have been occupied with cattle ; and they have brought their sheep , and their cattle , and all that they have.
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And it shall come to pass that when Pharaoh shall call you and say , What is your occupation?
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then ye shall say , Thy servants are men that have been occupied with cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers ; in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians .