[46:1] Jacob packed up all he had and went to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
[46:2] God spoke to him in a vision at night and called, “Jacob, Jacob!” “Yes, here I am,” he answered.
[46:3] “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go to Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there.
[46:4] I will go with you to Egypt, and I will bring your descendants back to this land. Joseph will be with you when you die.”
[46:5] Jacob set out from Beersheba. His sons put him, their small children, and their wives in the wagons which the king of Egypt had sent.
[46:6] They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him:
[46:7] his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters.
[46:8] The members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt with him were his oldest son Reuben
[46:9] and Reuben's sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
[46:10] Simeon and his sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
[46:11] Levi and his sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
[46:12] Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.
[46:13] Issachar and his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.
[46:14] Zebulun and his sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
[46:15] These are the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides his daughter Dinah. In all, his descendants by Leah numbered thirty-three.
[46:16] Gad and his sons: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arod, and Areli.
[46:17] Asher and his sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel.
[46:18] These sixteen are the descendants of Jacob by Zilpah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah.
[46:19] Jacob's wife Rachel bore him two sons: Joseph and Benjamin.
[46:20] In Egypt Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, by Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in Heliopolis.
[46:21] Benjamin's sons were Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
[46:22] These fourteen are the descendants of Jacob by Rachel.
[46:23] Dan and his son Hushim.
[46:24] Naphtali and his sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
[46:25] These seven are the descendants of Jacob by Bilhah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel.
[46:26] The total number of the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not including his sons' wives.
[46:27] Two sons were born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to seventy the total number of Jacob's family who went there.