Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt

46 So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to ^(A)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices ^(B)to the God of his father Isaac. ² And God spoke to Israel ^(C)in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³ Then he said, “I am God, ^(D)the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will ^(E)make you into a great nation. ⁴ I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also ^(F)bring you up again, and ^(G)Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.”

⁵ Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons ^(H)that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

⁷ Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, ^(A)and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. ⁸ And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” ⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my ^(B)sojourning are 130 years. ^(C)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and ^(D)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their ^(E)sojourning.” ¹⁰ And Jacob ^(F)blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. ¹¹ Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of ^(G)Rameses, ^(H)as Pharaoh had commanded. ¹² And Joseph ^(I)provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

²⁷ Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, ^(A)in the land of Goshen. ^(B)And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. ²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. ^(C)So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.

²⁹ And ^(D)when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now ^(E)I have found favor in your sight, ^(F)put your hand under my thigh and ^(G)promise to deal kindly and truly with me. ^(H)Do not bury me in Egypt, ³⁰ but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and ^(I)bury me in their burying place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.” ³¹ And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then ^(J)Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.^[a]