Genesis 46:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ Israel sent Judah ahead to Joseph to lead the way before him into Goshen. When they came to the land of Goshen,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct him to Goshen and meet him there; and they came into the land of Goshen.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to show the way before him unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Israel had sent Judah ahead to Joseph so that Joseph could explain the way to Goshen. Then they arrived in the land of Goshen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ Then he sent Judah ahead of himself, to Joseph, in order to report to him, and so that he would meet him in Goshen.

Genesis 46:28 Cross References

Genesis 45:10

You shall settle in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, as well as your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

Genesis 49:8

Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you.

Genesis 46:34

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors,’ in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and let us be on our way, so that we may live and not die—you and we and also our little ones.

Genesis 31:21

So he fled with all that he had; starting out he crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 47:1

So Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in the land of Goshen.”