Genesis 46 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Hebrew Names version (HNV)
Genesis 46

¹ Yisra'el traveled with all that he had, and came to Be'er-Sheva, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Yitzchak.

² God spoke to Yisra'el in the visions of the night, and said, *Ya`akov, Ya`akov!* He said, *Here I am.*

³ He said, *I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

⁴ I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Yosef will close your eyes.*

⁵ Ya`akov rose up from Be'er-Sheva, and the sons of Yisra'el carried Ya`akov, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Par`oh had sent to carry him.

⁶ They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Kena`an, and came into Egypt--Ya`akov, and all his seed with him,

⁷ his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

⁸ These are the names of the children of Yisra'el, who came into Egypt, Ya`akov and his sons: Re'uven, Ya`akov's firstborn.

⁹ The sons of Re'uven: Chanokh, Pallu, Chetzron, and Karmi.

¹⁰ The sons of Shim`on: Yemu'el, Yamin, Ohad, Yakhin, Tzochar, and Sha'ul the son of a Kena`ani woman.

¹¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari.

¹² The sons of Yehudah: `Er, Onan, Shelach, Peretz, and Zerach; but `Er and Onan died in the land of Kena`an. The sons of Peretz were Chetzron and Chamul.

¹³ The sons of Yissakhar: Tola, Puvah, Yov, and Shimron.

¹⁴ The sons of Zevulun: Sered, Elon, and Yachle'el.

¹⁵ These are the sons of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov in Paddan-Aram 1, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

¹⁶ The sons of Gad: Tzifyon, Chaggi, Shuni, Etzbon, `Eri, Arodi, and Ar'eli.

¹⁷ The sons of Asher: Yimna, Yishvah, Yishvi, Beri`ah, and Serach their sister. The sons of Beri`ah: Chever and Malki'el.

¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Lavan gave to Le'ah, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov, even sixteen souls.

¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Ya`akov's wife: Yosef and Binyamin.

²⁰ To Yosef in the land of Egypt were born Menasheh and Efrayim, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera, Kohen of On, bore to him.

²¹ The sons of Binyamin: Bela, Bekher, Ashbel, Gera, Na`aman, Echi, Rosh, Muppim, Chuppim, and Ard.

²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Ya`akov: all the souls were fourteen.

²³ The son of Dan: Chushim.

²⁴ The sons of Naftali: Yachtze'el, Guni, Yetzer, and Shillem.

²⁵ These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Lavan gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov: all the souls were seven.

²⁶ All the souls who came with Ya`akov into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Ya`akov's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

²⁷ The sons of Yosef, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Ya`akov, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ He sent Yehudah before him to Yosef, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

²⁹ Yosef made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisra'el, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

³⁰ Yisra'el said to Yosef, *Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.*

³¹ Yosef said to his brothers, and to his father's house, *I will go up, and speak with Par`oh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Kena`an, have come to me.

³² These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

³³ It will happen, when Par`oh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'

³⁴ that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.*