Thematic Bible




Genesis 46:1 (show verse)

So Israel journeyed with all that he had, and he came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

Genesis 46:2 (show verse)

And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I [am]."

Genesis 46:3 (show verse)

Then he said, "I [am] the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

Genesis 46:4 (show verse)

I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up. And Joseph will place his hand over your eyes."

Genesis 46:5 (show verse)

So Jacob arose from Beersheba. And the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, and their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to transport him.

Genesis 46:6 (show verse)

And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

Genesis 46:7 (show verse)

his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his daughters' daughters with him, into Egypt.

Genesis 46:8 (show verse)

Now these [are] the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob

Genesis 46:9 (show verse)

and the sons of Reuben: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

Genesis 46:10 (show verse)

The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 46:11 (show verse)

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Genesis 46:12 (show verse)

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Genesis 46:13 (show verse)

The sons of Issachar: Tolah, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

Genesis 46:14 (show verse)

The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

Genesis 46:15 (show verse)

These [are] the sons of Leah that she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters [were] thirty-three persons in all.

Genesis 46:16 (show verse)

The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

Genesis 46:17 (show verse)

The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.

Genesis 46:18 (show verse)

There [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob--sixteen persons.

Genesis 46:19 (show verse)

The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 46:20 (show verse)

And Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On bore to him, were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 46:21 (show verse)

The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Genesis 46:22 (show verse)

These [are] the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob--fourteen persons in all.

Genesis 46:23 (show verse)

The sons of Dan: Hushim.

Genesis 46:24 (show verse)

The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

Genesis 46:25 (show verse)

These [are] the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob--seven persons in all.

Genesis 46:26 (show verse)

All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt {who were his descendants}, not including the wives of the sons of Jacob [were] sixty-six persons in all.

Genesis 46:27 (show verse)

And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt [were] two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt [were] seventy.

Genesis 46:28 (show verse)

He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to appear before him in Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.

Genesis 46:29 (show verse)

Then Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell upon his neck and wept upon his neck a long time.

Genesis 46:30 (show verse)

Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die since I have seen your face, for you are still alive."

Genesis 46:31 (show verse)

Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household who [were] in the land of Canaan have come to me.

Genesis 46:32 (show verse)

And the men [are] shepherds, for they are men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their cattle and all that they have.'

Genesis 46:33 (show verse)

And it shall be [that] when Pharaoh calls you he will say, 'What [is] your occupation?'

Genesis 46:34 (show verse)

Then you must say, 'You servants [are] men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,' so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd [is] a detestable thing to Egyptians."