Genesis 46

2  Hashem called to Yisrael in a vision by night: “Yaakov! Yaakov!” He answered, “Here.”

3  And He said, “I am Hashem, the God of your father. Fear not to go down to Egypt, for I will make you there into a great nation.

5  So Yaakov set out from Be’er Sheva. The sons of Yisrael put their father Yaakov and their children and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to transport him;

6  and they took along their livestock and the wealth that they had amassed in the land of Canaan. Thus Yaakov and all his offspring with him came to Egypt:

7  he brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.

8  These are the names of the Israelites, Yaakov and his descendants, who came to Egypt. Yaakov’s first-born Reuven;

9  Reuven’s sons: Chanoch, Pallu, Chetzron, and Carmi.

10  Shimon’s sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

11  Levi’s sons: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari.

12  Yehuda’s sons: Er, Onan, Sheila, Peretz, and Zerach—but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan; and Peretz’s sons were Chetzron and Hamul.

13  Yissachar’s sons: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

14  Zevulun’s sons: Sered, Eilon, and Jahleel.

15  Those were the sons whom Leah bore to Yaakov in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dina. Persons in all, male and female: 33.

16  Gad’s sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

17  Asher’s sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah’s sons: Chever and Malchiel.

18  These were the descendants of Zilpa, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah. These she bore to Yaakov—16 persons.

19  The sons of Yaakov’s wife Rachel were Yosef and Binyamin.

20  To Yosef were born in the land of Egypt Menashe and Efraim, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore to him.

21  Binyamin’s sons: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

22  These were the descendants of Rachel who were born to Yaakov—14 persons in all.

23  Dan’s son: Hushim.

24  Naftali’s sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25  These were the descendants of Bilha, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel. These she bore to Yaakov—7 persons in all.

26  All the persons belonging to Yaakov who came to Egypt—his own issue, aside from the wives of Yaakov’s sons—all these persons numbered 66.

27  And Yosef’s sons who were born to him in Egypt were two in number. Thus the total of Yaakov’s household who came to Egypt was seventy persons.

28  He had sent Yehuda ahead of him to Yosef, to point the way before him to Goshen. So when they came to the region of Goshen,

29  Yosef ordered his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father Yisrael; he presented himself to him and, embracing him around the neck, he wept on his neck a good while.

30  Then Yisrael said to Yosef, “Now I can die, having seen for myself that you are still alive.”

31  Then Yosef said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32  The men are shepherds; they have always been breeders of livestock, and they have brought with them their flocks and herds and all that is theirs.’

33  So when Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’

34  you shall answer, ‘Your servants have been breeders of livestock from the start until now, both we and our fathers’—so that you may stay in the region of Goshen. For all shepherds are abhorrent to Egyptians.”