Bereshit 46

And Israel journeyed, with all that he had, and came to Beer-Sheba; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

And God said to him, in a vision of the night: 'O Jacob, O Jacob.' He said: 'I am at your service.'

He said: 'I am the Power, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt — for I shall make of you a great nation there.

I shall go down with you to Egypt; and I shall surely bring you up again; and Joseph shall close your [eyes].'

And Jacob arose from Beer-Sheba; and the children of Israel carried him, and their little ones and their wives, on the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

And they took their cattle, and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt — Jacob and all his offspring with him:

his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters and all his offspring — he brought with him into Egypt.

And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt — that is Jacob and his sons. The firstborn of Jacob: Reuben.

And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hetzron, and Karmi.

And the sons of Simeon: Yemuel, and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yakhin, and Tzohar; and Saul the son of the Canaanite woman.

And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah. And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hetzron and Hamul.

And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Yov, and Shimron.

And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Yahleel.

These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter; the whole of them — thirty-three souls.

And the sons of Gad: Tzifyon, and Hagi, and Shuni, and Etzbon, and Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

And the sons of Asher: Yimna, and Yishva, and Yishvi, and Beriah; and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Hever and Malkiel.

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; all whom she bore to Jacob: sixteen souls.

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

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

And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Bekher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob — all of them: fourteen souls.

And the sons of Dan: Hushim.

And the sons of Naphtali: Yahtzeel, and Guni, and Yetzer, and Shillem.

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; all that she bore to Jacob: seven souls.

All the souls who came with Jacob to Egypt, who came out from their loins — apart from the wives of Jacob's sons — sixty-six souls.

And Joseph and his two sons who were born to him in Egypt — two souls. The total of the souls who entered with Jacob into Egypt — seventy.

And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point him toward the land of al-Sadir (Goshen); and they came to it.

And Joseph harnessed his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father in al-Sadir; and when he appeared to him, he fell upon his neck, and wept upon him long.

And Israel said to him: 'Let me die now, after I have seen your face — that you are still alive.'

Joseph said to his brothers and to the rest of his father's household: 'I shall go up to Pharaoh, and tell him, and say to him: "My brothers and the household of my father, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

And the men are shepherds of sheep, for they have been men of cattle; and their sheep and their cattle and all their property they have brought."

And it shall be when Pharaoh calls for you, and says: "What is your occupation?"

you shall say: "Your servants have been men of cattle from our youth until now — and so were our fathers," — that you may dwell in the land of al-Sadir; for the Egyptians abhor every shepherd of sheep.'