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Genesis 46
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The Family of Jacob goes to Egypt

46 So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had.[a] When he came to Beer Sheba[b] he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2 God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night[c] and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He replied, “Here I am!” 3 He said, “I am God,[d] the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 4 I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there.[e] Joseph will close your eyes.”[f]

5 Then Jacob started out[g] from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him. 6 Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.[h] 7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons,[i] his daughters and granddaughters—all his descendants.

8 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt—Jacob and his sons: Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob.

9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul (the son of a Canaanite woman).
11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan).
The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah,[j] Jashub,[k] and Shimron.
14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all.[l]
16 The sons of Gad: Zephon,[m] Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister.
The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malkiel.
18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, sixteen in all.
19 The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,[n] bore them to him.
21 The sons of Benjamin:[o] Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.
22 These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob, fourteen in all.
23 The son of Dan: Hushim.[p]
24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

26 All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)[q] 27 Counting the two sons[r] of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.[s]

28 Jacob[t] sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen.[u] So they came to the land of Goshen. 29 Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him,[v] he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”[w] 31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh,[x] ‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me. 32 The men are shepherds;[y] they take care of livestock.[z] They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ 33 Pharaoh will summon you and say, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34 Tell him, ‘Your servants have taken care of cattle[aa] from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen,[ab] for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting[ac] to the Egyptians.”

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 46:1 tn Heb “and Israel journeyed, and all that was his.”
  2. Genesis 46:1 sn Beer Sheba. See Gen 21:31; 28:10.
  3. Genesis 46:2 tn Heb “in visions of the night.” The plural form has the singular meaning, probably as a plural of intensity.
  4. Genesis 46:3 tn Heb “the God.”
  5. Genesis 46:4 tn Heb “and I, I will bring you up, also bringing up.” The independent personal pronoun before the first person imperfect verbal form draws attention to the speaker/subject, while the infinitive absolute after the imperfect strongly emphasizes the statement: “I myself will certainly bring you up.”
  6. Genesis 46:4 tn Heb “and Joseph will put his hand upon your eyes.” This is a promise of peaceful death in Egypt with Joseph present to close his eyes.
  7. Genesis 46:5 tn Heb “arose.”
  8. Genesis 46:6 tn Heb “and they took their livestock and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan and they went to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  9. Genesis 46:7 tn The Hebrew text adds “with him” here. This is omitted in the translation because it is redundant in English style (note the same phrase earlier in the verse).
  10. Genesis 46:13 tc The MT reads “Puvah” (cf. Num 26:23); Smr and Syriac read “Puah” (cf. 1 Chr 7:1).
  11. Genesis 46:13 tc The MT reads יוֹב (yov, “Job,”) but Smr, supported by the LXX, reads יָשׁוּב (yashuv, “Jashub”) (see Num 26:24; 1 Chr 7:1).
  12. Genesis 46:15 tn Heb “all the lives of his sons and his daughters, thirty-three.”
  13. Genesis 46:16 tc The MT reads “Ziphion,” but see Num 26:15, Smr and the LXX, all of which read “Zephon.”
  14. Genesis 46:20 sn On is another name for the city of Heliopolis.
  15. Genesis 46:21 sn The sons of Benjamin. It is questionable whether youthful Benjamin had ten sons by the time he went into Egypt, but it is not impossible. If Benjamin was born when Joseph was six or seven, he was ten when Joseph was sold into Egypt, and would have been thirty-two at this point. Some suggest that the list originally served another purpose and included the names of all who were in the immediate family of the sons, whether born in Canaan or later in Egypt.
  16. Genesis 46:23 tn This name appears as “Shuham” in Num 26:42. The LXX reads “Hashum” here.
  17. Genesis 46:26 tn Heb “All the people who went with Jacob to Egypt, the ones who came out of his body, apart from the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the people were sixty-six.”sn The number sixty-six includes the seventy-one descendants (including Dinah) listed in vv. 8-25 minus Er and Onan (deceased), and Joseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim (already in Egypt).
  18. Genesis 46:27 tn The LXX reads “nine sons,” probably counting the grandsons of Joseph born to Ephraim and Manasseh (cf. 1 Chr 7:14-20).
  19. Genesis 46:27 tn Heb “And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two people; all the people belonging to the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.”sn The number seventy includes Jacob himself and the seventy-one descendants (including Dinah, Joseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim) listed in vv. 8-25, minus Er and Onan (deceased). The LXX gives the number as “seventy-five” (cf. Acts 7:14).
  20. Genesis 46:28 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  21. Genesis 46:28 tn Heb “to direct before him to Goshen.”
  22. Genesis 46:29 tn Heb “and he appeared to him.”
  23. Genesis 46:30 tn Heb “after my seeing your face that you are still alive.”
  24. Genesis 46:31 tn Heb “tell Pharaoh and say to him.”
  25. Genesis 46:32 tn Heb “feeders of sheep.”
  26. Genesis 46:32 tn Heb “for men of livestock they are.”
  27. Genesis 46:34 tn Heb “your servants are men of cattle.”
  28. Genesis 46:34 sn So that you may live in the land of Goshen. Joseph is apparently trying to stress to Pharaoh that his family is self-sufficient, that they will not be a drain on the economy of Egypt. But they will need land for their animals and so Goshen, located on the edge of Egypt, would be a suitable place for them to live. The settled Egyptians were uneasy with nomadic people, but if Jacob and his family settled in Goshen they would represent no threat.
  29. Genesis 46:34 tn Heb “is an abomination.” The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (toʿevah, “abomination”) describes something that is loathsome or off-limits. For other practices the Egyptians considered disgusting, see Gen 43:32 and Exod 8:22.
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Génesis 46
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Viaje de Jacob a Egipto

46 Entonces Jacob[a] emprendió el viaje a Egipto con todas sus posesiones. Y cuando llegó a Beerseba, ofreció sacrificios al Dios de su padre Isaac. 2 Durante la noche, Dios le habló en una visión.

—¡Jacob! ¡Jacob!—lo llamó.

—Aquí estoy—respondió Jacob.

3 —Yo soy Dios, el Dios de tu padre—dijo la voz—. No tengas temor de descender a Egipto, porque allí haré de tu familia una gran nación. 4 Yo descenderé contigo a Egipto y te volveré a traer. Morirás en Egipto, pero José estará contigo para cerrar tus ojos.

5 Entonces Jacob salió de Beerseba, y sus hijos lo llevaron a Egipto. Lo transportaron a él, junto con los pequeños y las esposas, en los carros que el faraón les había provisto. 6 También se llevaron todos los animales y los bienes personales que habían adquirido en la tierra de Canaán. Así que Jacob partió hacia Egipto con toda su familia 7 —hijos y nietos, hijas y nietas—; se fue con todos sus descendientes.

8 Estos son los nombres de los descendientes de Israel—los hijos de Jacob—que fueron a Egipto:

Rubén fue el hijo mayor de Jacob. 9 Los hijos de Rubén fueron Hanoc, Falú, Hezrón y Carmi.

10 Los hijos de Simeón fueron Jemuel, Jamín, Ohad, Jaquín, Zohar y Saúl. (La madre de Saúl fue una mujer cananea).

11 Los hijos de Leví fueron Gersón, Coat y Merari.

12 Los hijos de Judá fueron Er, Onán, Sela, Fares y Zera (aunque Er y Onán habían muerto en la tierra de Canaán). Los hijos de Fares fueron Hezrón y Hamul.

13 Los hijos de Isacar fueron Tola, Púa,[b] Jasub[c] y Simrón.

14 Los hijos de Zabulón fueron Sered, Elón y Jahleel.

15 Esos fueron los hijos de Lea y Jacob que nacieron en Padán-aram, además de su hija Dina. Los descendientes de Jacob por medio de Lea (tanto hombres como mujeres) fueron treinta y tres.

16 Los hijos de Gad fueron Zefón,[d] Hagui, Suni, Ezbón, Eri, Arodi y Areli.

17 Los hijos de Aser fueron Imna, Isúa, Isúi y Bería. La hermana de ellos se llamaba Sera. Los hijos de Bería fueron Heber y Malquiel.

18 Esos fueron los hijos de Zilpa, la sierva que Lea recibió de su padre Labán. Los descendientes de Jacob por medio de Zilpa fueron dieciséis.

19 Los hijos de Raquel, esposa de Jacob, fueron José y Benjamín.

20 Los hijos de José que nacieron en la tierra de Egipto fueron Manasés y Efraín. La madre de ellos fue Asenat, hija de Potifera, sacerdote de On.[e]

21 Los hijos de Benjamín fueron Bela, Bequer, Asbel, Gera, Naamán, Ehi, Ros, Mupim, Hupim y Ard.

22 Esos fueron los hijos de Raquel y Jacob. Los descendientes de Jacob por medio de Raquel fueron catorce.

23 El hijo de Dan fue Husim.

24 Los hijos de Neftalí fueron Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer y Silem.

25 Esos fueron los hijos de Bilha, la sierva que Raquel recibió de su padre Labán. Los descendientes de Jacob por medio de Bilha fueron siete.

26 Todos los descendientes directos de Jacob que partieron con él a Egipto, sin contar a las esposas de sus hijos, fueron sesenta y seis. 27 Además, José tuvo dos hijos[f] que nacieron en Egipto. Así que, en total, había setenta[g] miembros de la familia de Jacob en la tierra de Egipto.

La familia de Jacob llega a Gosén

28 Cuando ya estaban cerca de llegar, Jacob mandó que Judá se adelantara a fin de encontrarse con José y averiguar el camino a la región de Gosén. Cuando por fin llegaron, 29 José preparó su carro de guerra y viajó hasta Gosén para recibir a su padre Jacob. Cuando José llegó, corrió a los brazos de su padre y lloró sobre su hombro un largo rato. 30 Finalmente, Jacob le dijo a José: «Ahora estoy listo para morir porque he vuelto a ver tu rostro y sé que aún vives».

31 Entonces José dijo a sus hermanos y a toda la familia de su padre: «Iré al faraón y le diré: “Mis hermanos y toda la familia de mi padre han venido a verme desde la tierra de Canaán. 32 Son pastores y crían animales. Han traído sus rebaños y sus manadas y todo lo que poseen”».

33 Después dijo: «Cuando el faraón los llame y les pregunte a qué se dedican, 34 ustedes deben decirle: “Nosotros, sus siervos, hemos criado ganado toda nuestra vida, igual que nuestros antepasados”. Cuando le digan eso, él los dejará vivir aquí en la región de Gosén, porque los egipcios desprecian a los pastores».

Footnotes

  1. 46:1 En hebreo Israel; también en 46:29, 30. Ver nota en 35:21.
  2. 46:13a Así aparece en la versión siríaca y en el Pentateuco Samaritano (ver también 1 Cr 7:1); en hebreo dice Puvá.
  3. 46:13b Así aparece en algunos manuscritos griegos y en el Pentateuco Samaritano (ver también Nm 26:24; 1 Cr 7:1). En hebreo dice Job.
  4. 46:16 Así aparece en la versión griega y en el Pentateuco Samaritano (ver también Nm 26:15); en hebreo dice Zifión.
  5. 46:20 La versión griega dice de Heliópolis.
  6. 46:27a La versión griega dice nueve hijos, probablemente incluye a los nietos de José por medio de Efraín y Manasés (ver 1 Cr 7:14-20).
  7. 46:27b La versión griega dice setenta y cinco; ver nota en Ex 1:5.
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