46 2 God assureth Jacob of his journey into Egypt. 27 The number of his family when he went into Egypt. 29 Joseph meeteth his father. 34 He teacheth his brethren what to answer to Pharaoh.

Then Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and [a]offered sacrifice unto the God of his father Isaac.

And God spake unto Israel in a vision by night, saying, Jacob, Jacob. Who answered, I am here.

Then he said, I am God, the God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation.

I will [b]go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also [c]bring thee up again, and Joseph shall [d]put his hand upon thine eyes.

Then Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their children, and their wives in the chariots, which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, both (A)Jacob and all his seed with him.

His sons and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 46:1 Whereby he both signifieth, that he worshipped the true God, and also that he kept in his heart the possession of that land from whence present necessity drove him.
  2. Genesis 46:4 Conducting thee by my power.
  3. Genesis 46:4 In thy posterity.
  4. Genesis 46:4 Shall shut thine eyes when thou diest: which appertained to him that was most dearest, or chief of the kindred.

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