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And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and 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 God , the God of thy father : fear not to go down into Egypt ; for I will there make of thee a great nation :
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I will go down with thee into Egypt ; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon 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 , in the wagons which 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 into 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 brought he with him into Egypt .
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And these are the names of the children of Israel , who came into Egypt , Jacob and his sons: Reuben , Jacob 's first-born .
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And the sons of Reuben ; Hanoch , 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 Shaul 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 Pharez, and Zerah : but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan . And the sons of Pharez were Hezron, and Hamul.
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And the sons of Issachar ; Tola, and Phuvah, 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, which she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram , with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
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And the sons of Gad ; Ziphion, and Haggai, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
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And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, 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 these she bore to Jacob , even 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 Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bore to him.
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And the sons of Benjamin were 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 into Egypt , who came out of his loins, besides Jacob 's sons' wives , all the souls were sixty and 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 , who came into Egypt , were seventy.
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And he sent Judah before him to Joseph , to direct his face to Goshen ; and they came into the land of Goshen .
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And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went to meet Israel his father to Goshen ; and 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 , since I have seen thy face , because thou art yet alive.
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And Joseph said to his brethren , and to his father 's house , I will go up , and show 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 their employment hath been to feed cattle ; and they have brought their flocks , and their herds , and all that they have.
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And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say , What is your occupation?
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That ye shall say , The occupation of thy servants hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers : that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians .