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 (C)God spoke to Israel ^[a]in visions of the night and said, “^(D)Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³ 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 a great nation there. ^4 (G)I will go down with you to Egypt, and ^(H)I will also surely bring you up again; and ^(I)Joseph will ^[b]close your eyes.”

⁵ Then Jacob arose from 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 took their livestock and their property, 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.

Those Who Came to Egypt

⁸ Now these are the ^(L)names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. ⁹ The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. ¹⁰ The ^(M)sons of Simeon: ^[e]Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and ^[f]Jachin and ^[g]Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. ¹¹ The sons of Levi: ^[h]Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the ^(N)sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ The sons of Issachar: Tola and ^[i]Puvvah and ^[j]Iob and Shimron. ¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; ^[k]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. ¹⁶ The ^(O)sons of Gad: ^[l]Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and ^[m]Ezbon, Eri and ^[n]Arodi and Areli. ¹⁷ The ^(P)sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the ^(Q)sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons. ¹⁹ The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ^20 (R)Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. ²¹ The ^(S)sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, ^[o]Ehi and Rosh, ^[p]Muppim and ^[q]Huppim and Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all. ²³ The sons of Dan: ^[r]Hushim. ²⁴ The sons of Naphtali: ^[s]Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and ^[t]Shillem. ²⁵ These are the ^(T)sons of Bilhah, whom ^(U)Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all. ^26 (V)All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, ^[u]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 ^[v]two; ^(W)all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to ^(X)Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. ²⁹ Joseph ^[w]prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared ^[x]before him, he fell on his neck and ^(Y)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 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “^(Z)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 ^[y]keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ ³³ When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘^(AA)What is your occupation?’ ³⁴ you shall say, ‘Your servants have been ^[z](AB)keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may ^[aa]live in the land of ^(AC)Goshen; for every shepherd is ^[ab](AD)loathsome to the Egyptians.”

Security of Those Who Trust in the Lord, and Insecurity of the Wicked.

A Psalm of David.

Sabbath Questions

12 ^(A)At that ^[a]time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to ^(B)pick the heads of grain and eat. ² But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples do what ^(C)is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.” ³ But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions, ⁴ how he entered the house of God, and ^(D)they ate the ^[b]consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? ⁵ Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple ^[c]break the Sabbath and are innocent? ⁶ But I say to you that something ^(E)greater than the temple is here. ⁷ But if you had known what this ^[d]means, ‘^(F)I desire ^[e]compassion, and not a sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

Lord of the Sabbath

⁸ For ^(G)the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

^9 (H)Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned ^[f]Jesus, asking, “^(I)Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse Him. ¹¹ And He said to them, “^(J)What man ^[g]is there among you who ^[h]has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out? ^12 (K)How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do ^[i]good on the Sabbath.” ¹³ Then He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” ^(L)He stretched it out, and it was restored to ^[j]normal, like the other. ¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and ^[k](M)conspired against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

¹⁵ But Jesus, ^[l]aware of this, withdrew from there. Many followed Him, and ^(N)He healed them all, ¹⁶ and ^(O)warned them not to ^[m]tell who He was. ¹⁷ This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: