¹¹ Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.^{(A) 12} But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there on their first visit.^{(B) 13} On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.^{(C) 14} Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;^{(D) 15} so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,^(E)

¹⁷ The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.^(A)

² God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”^{(A) 3} Then he said, “I am God,^[a] the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.^{(B) 4} I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s own hand shall close your eyes.”^(C)

⁵ Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.^{(D) 6} They also took their livestock and the goods that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,^{(E) 7} his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters; all his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

⁴ and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.^(A)

²⁸ Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.