--- title: Genesis 46 slug: kjv/genesis-46 createdAt: 2024-07-21T03:49:03.695Z --- **1 **And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. **2 **And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here *am* I. **3 **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: **4 **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. **5 **And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: 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. **6 **And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: **7 **His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. **8 **And these *are* the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. **9 **And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. **10 **And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. **11 **And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. **12 **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. **13 **And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. **14 **And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. **15 **These *be* the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters *were* thirty and three. **16 **And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. **17 **And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. **18 **These *are* the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, *even* sixteen souls. **19 **The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. **20 **And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him. **21 **And the sons of Benjamin *were* Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. **22 **These *are* the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls *were* fourteen. **23 **And the sons of Dan; Hushim. **24 **And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. **25 **These *are* the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls *were* seven. **26 **All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls *were* threescore and six; **27 **And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, *were* two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, *were* threescore and ten. **28 **And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. **29 **And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. **30 **And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou *art* yet alive. **31 **And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which *were* in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; **32 **And the men *are* shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. **33 **And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What *is* your occupation? **34 **That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade 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 unto the Egyptians.