Jacob’s Journey to Egypt^(A)

46 So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to ^(B)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices ^(C)to the God of his father Isaac. ² Then God spoke to Israel ^(D)in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

³ So He said, “I am God, ^(E)the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will ^(F)make of you a great nation there. ^4 (G)I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely ^(H)bring you up again; and ^(I)Joseph ^[a]will put his hand on your eyes.”

⁵ Then ^(J)Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the ^[b]carts ^(K)which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶ So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, ^(L)Jacob and all his descendants with him. ⁷ His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Jacob Settles in Goshen

²⁸ Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, ^(A)to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came ^(B)to the land of Goshen. ²⁹ So Joseph made ready his ^(C)chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and ^(D)fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

³⁰ And Israel said to Joseph, ^(E)“Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.”

³¹ Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, ^(F)“I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. ³² And the men are ^(G)shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.’ ³³ So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ^(H)‘What is your occupation?’ ³⁴ that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ ^(I)occupation has been with livestock ^(J)from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is ^(K)an^[a] abomination to the Egyptians.”