⁹ Hurry and go up to my father, and ^(A)say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay. ¹⁰ For you shall live in the land of ^(B)Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your ^[a]grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have. ¹¹ There I will also ^(C)provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished.”’ ¹² Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which is speaking to you. ¹³ Now you must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and all that you have seen; and you must hurry and ^(D)bring my father down here.” ¹⁴ Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and ^(E)wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. ¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.

¹⁶ Now when ^(F)the ^[b]news was heard in Pharaoh’s house ^[c]that Joseph’s brothers had come, it ^[d]pleased Pharaoh and his servants. ¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your livestock and ^[e]go to the land of Canaan, ¹⁸ and take your father and your households and come to me; and ^(G)I will give you the ^[f]best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’ ¹⁹ Now you are ordered, ‘Do this: ^[g]take ^(H)wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come. ²⁰ And do not ^[h]concern yourselves with your property, for the ^[i]best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”

²¹ Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them ^(I)wagons according to the ^[j]command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. ²² To ^[k]each of them he gave ^(J)changes of garments, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and ^(K)five changes of garments. ²³ And to his father he sent ^[l]the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the ^[m]best things of Egypt, ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and sustenance for his father ^[n]on the journey.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and ^[o]as they departed, he said to them, “Do not ^[p]quarrel on the journey.” ²⁵ Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob. ²⁶ And they told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” But ^[q]he was stunned, for ^(L)he did not believe them. ²⁷ When they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and when he saw the ^(M)wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of their father Jacob revived. ²⁸ Then Israel said, “It is enough; my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Jacob Moves to Egypt

46 So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to ^(A)Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the ^(B)God of his father Isaac. ² And ^(C)God spoke to Israel ^[a]in visions of the night and said, “^(D)Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³ Then He said, “^(E)I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will ^(F)make you into a great nation there. ^4 (G)I will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(H)I will also assuredly bring you up again; and ^(I)Joseph will ^[b]close your eyes.”

⁵ Then Jacob left Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the ^(J)wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶ They also took their livestock and their possessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and ^(K)came to Egypt, Jacob and all his ^[c]descendants with him: ⁷ his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his ^[d]descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

^26 (A)All the people belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, ^[a]his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all, ²⁷ and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were ^[b]two; ^(B)all the people of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to ^[c]guide him to ^(C)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. ²⁹ And Joseph ^[d]prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared to him, Joseph threw himself on his neck and ^(D)wept on his neck a long time. ³⁰ Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.” ³¹ But Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “^(E)I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me; ³² and the men are shepherds, for they have been ^[e]keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ ³³ When Pharaoh calls for you and says, ‘^(F)What is your occupation?’ ³⁴ you shall say, ‘Your servants have been ^[f](G)keepers of livestock since our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of ^(H)Goshen; for every shepherd is an ^(I)abomination to the Egyptians.”