Genesis 46 Jacob’s Journey to Egypt | Jacob Settles in Goshen

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   May 9, 2025 3:49 am

   So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
   Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night:
   “Jacob, Jacob!”

   Israel:
   “Here I am.”

   So God:
   “I am God, the God of your father.
   Do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.
   I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes (will close your eyes when you die).”

   Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
   So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.
   His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

   Now these were the names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt:

   Sons of Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn:
   1) Hanoch
   2) Pallu
   3) Hezron
   4) Carmi

   Sons of Simeon were
   1) Jemuel
   2) Jamin
   3) Ohad
   4) Jachin
   5) Zohar
   6) Shaul, son of a Canaanite woman

   Jemuel = Nemuel
   Jachin = Jarib
   Zohar = Zerah

   1 Chronicles 4:24
   The sons of Simeon were Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul,

   Sons of Levi
   1) Gershon
   2) Kohath
   3) Merari

   Sons of Judah
   1) Er
   2) Onan
   3) Shelah
   4) Perez
   5) Zerah
   (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan)

   Ssons of Perez
   1) Hezron
   2) Hamul

   Sons of Issachar:
   1) Tola
   2) Puvah
   3) Job
   4) Shimron

   Puvah = Puah
   Job = Jashub

   Numbers 26:23
   The sons of Issachar according to their families were: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puah, the family of the Punites;

   Numbers 26:24
   of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

   1 Chronicles 7:1
   The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.

   Sons of Zebulun
   1) Sered
   2) Elon
   3) Jahleel

   These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah.
   All the persons, his sons and his daughters, were 33.

   Sons of Gad were
   1) Ziphion
   2) Haggi
   3) Shuni
   4) Ezbon
   5) Eri
   6) Arodi
   7) Areli

   Ziphion = Zephon

   Numbers 26:15
   The sons of Gad according to their families were: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

   Ezbon = Ozni

   Numbers 26:16
   of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

   Arodi = Arod

   Numbers 26:17
   of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

   Sons of Asher:
   1) Jimnah
   2) Ishuah
   3) Isui
   4) Beriah

   1) Serah, their sister

   Sons of Beriah
   1) Heber
   2) Malchiel

   These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter.
   These she bore to Jacob: 16 persons.

   Sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife
   1) Joseph
   2) Benjamin

   To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born:
   1) Manasseh
   2) Ephraim
   whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.

   Sons of Benjamin:
   1) Belah
   2) Becher
   3) Ashbel
   4) Gera
   5) Naaman
   6) Ehi
   7) Rosh
   8) Muppim
   9) Huppim
   10) Ard

   Huppim = Hupham

   Numbers 26:39
   of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

   These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: 14 persons in all.

   Son of Dan
   1) Hushim

   Hushim = Shuham

   Numbers 26:42
   These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites.

   These are the families of Dan according to their families.

   Sons of Naphtali
   1) Jahzeel
   2) Guni
   3) Jezer
   4) Shillem

   Jahzeel = Jahziel
   Shillem = Shallum

   1 Chronicles 7:13
   The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

   These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: 7 persons in all.

   All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were 66 persons in all.

   The sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were 2 persons.

   All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were 70.

   Sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah:
   All the persons, his sons and his daughters: 33

   Sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter:
   These she bore to Jacob: 16

   Sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: 14

   Sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: 7

   33 + 16 + 14 + 7 = 70

   70 – 3 (Joseph + his 2 sons (Manasseh + Ephraim) – 1 (Shaul, son of a Canaanite woman) = 66

   Then Israel sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out before him the way to Goshen.
   They came to the land of Goshen.
   So Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel.
   He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

   Israel to Joseph:
   “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.”

   Then Joseph to his brothers and to his father’s household:
   “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
   The men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.’
   So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen.
   For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

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