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And Israel journeyed, and all that he had◦, and came to Beer-sheba, and sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
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And God said to Israel in the visions◦ of the night, and He said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Behold me.
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And He said, I▵ am God◦; the God of thy father; fear not from going··down to▫ Egypt, for I will there set thee for a great nation.
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I▵ will go··down with thee toward Egypt; and I▵ will cause thee to go··up, even to go··up; 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 infants, and their women, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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And they took their livestock, and their acquisition 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 sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, of Jacob and of his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
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And the sons of Reuben: Enoch, and Pallu, 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 Canaanite woman.
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And the sons of Levi: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari.
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And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zeraḥ; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Chamul.
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And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puwah, and Iob, 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, to whom she gave··birth for Jacob in Paddan-aram, and his daughter Dinah; all the souls of his sons and of his daughters were thirty and 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: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Cheber, and Malchiel.
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These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and to these she gave··birth for Jacob, sixteen souls.
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The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
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And to Joseph was··born* in the land of Egypt Manasseh and Ephraim, to whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, gave··birth for him.
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And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, 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 to these she gave··birth for Jacob; all the souls were seven.
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All the souls that came with Jacob to▫ Egypt, that came··forth from his thigh, besides the women of the sons of Jacob, 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 to▫ Egypt, were seventy.
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And he sent Judah before him to▵ Joseph, to go* before him to Goshen; and they came to▫ the land of Goshen.
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And Joseph harnessed his chariot, and went··up to meet Israel his father, to▫ Goshen; and he was seen of▵ him, and fell upon his necks, and wept upon his necks a long while.*
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And Israel said to▵ Joseph, Let me die, after that I have seen thy faces, that thou art yet alive.
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And Joseph said to▵ his brothers, and to▵ his father’s house, I will go··up, and will tell Pharaoh, and will say to▵ him, My brothers, 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 of the flock, for they are men◦ of livestock; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have◦.
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And it may be that Pharaoh will call you, and will say, What are your works◦?
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And you shall say: Thy servants have been men◦ of livestock from our youth and even until now, both◦ we◦, and◦ our fathers; so··that◦ you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd of the flock is an abomination of Egypt.
