Thematic Bible
Genesis 46:1 (show verse)
Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came unto Beersheba and offered offerings unto the God of his father Isaac.
Genesis 46:2 (show verse)
And God said unto Israel in a vision by night, and called unto him, "Jacob, Jacob." And he answered, "Here am I."
Genesis 46:3 (show verse)
And he said, "I am that mighty God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt. For I will make of thee there a great people.
Genesis 46:4 (show verse)
I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also bring thee up again, and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes."
Genesis 46:5 (show verse)
And Jacob rose up from Beersheba. And the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their children and their wives in the chariots which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis 46:6 (show verse)
And they took their cattle and the goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt: both Jacob and all his seed with him;
Genesis 46:7 (show verse)
his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons daughters and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Genesis 46:8 (show verse)
These are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt, both Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first son.
Genesis 46:9 (show verse)
The children of Reuben: Hanoch, Phallu, Hezron and Carmi.
Genesis 46:10 (show verse)
The children of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
Genesis 46:11 (show verse)
The children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
Genesis 46:12 (show verse)
The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Sarah - but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The children of Perez, Hezron, and Hamul.
Genesis 46:13 (show verse)
The children of Issachar: Tola, Puva, Iob and Shimron.
Genesis 46:14 (show verse)
The children of Zebulon: Sered, Elon and Jahleel.
Genesis 46:15 (show verse)
These be the children of Lea which she bare unto Jacob in Mesopotamia with his daughter Dina. All these souls of his sons and daughters make thirty and six.
Genesis 46:16 (show verse)
The children of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.
Genesis 46:17 (show verse)
The children of Asher: Imnah, Isvah, Ishvi, Beriah and Serah their sister. And the children of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel.
Genesis 46:18 (show verse)
These are the children of Zilpah whom Laban gave to Lea his daughter. And these she bare unto Jacob in number sixteen souls.
Genesis 46:19 (show verse)
The children of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 46:20 (show verse)
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were borne: Manasseh and Ephraim which Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On bare unto him.
Genesis 46:21 (show verse)
The children of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.
Genesis 46:22 (show verse)
These are the children of Rachel which were born unto Jacob: fourteen souls altogether.
Genesis 46:23 (show verse)
The children of Dan: Hushim.
Genesis 46:24 (show verse)
The children Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem.
Genesis 46:25 (show verse)
These are the sons of Bilhah which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob, altogether seven souls.
Genesis 46:26 (show verse)
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt which came out of his loins - beside his son's wives - were all together sixty and six souls.
Genesis 46:27 (show verse)
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt were: two souls. So that all the souls of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt are seventy.
Genesis 46:28 (show verse)
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph that the way might be showed him unto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Genesis 46:29 (show verse)
And Joseph made ready his chariot and went to meet Israel his father unto Goshen, and presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck and wept upon his neck a good while.
Genesis 46:30 (show verse)
And Israel said unto Joseph, "Now I am content to die, insomuch I have seen thee, that thou art yet alive."
Genesis 46:31 (show verse)
And Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house, "I will go and show Pharaoh, and tell him that my brethren and my father's house which were in the land of Canaan are come unto me,
Genesis 46:32 (show verse)
and how they are shepherds," - for they were men of cattle - "and they have brought their sheep and their oxen and all that they have with them.
Genesis 46:33 (show verse)
If Pharaoh call you and ask you what your occupation is,
Genesis 46:34 (show verse)
say, 'Thy servants have been occupied about cattle, from our childhood unto this time: both we and our fathers,' that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen. For an abomination unto the Egyptians are all that feed sheep."