BERESHITH (GENESIS) 46

Gen 46:1 And Yisra’ĕl set out with all that he had, and came to Be’ĕrsheḇa,
and brought offerings to the Elohim of his father Yitsḥaq.
Gen 46:2 And Elohim spoke to Yisra’ĕl in the visions of the night, and said,
“Ya‛aqoḇ, Ya‛aqoḇ!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Gen 46:3 And He said, “I am the Ĕl, Elohim of your father. Do not be afraid
to go down to Mitsrayim, for I shall make you there into a great nation.
Gen 46:4 “I Myself am going down with you to Mitsrayim and I Myself shall
certainly bring you up again. And let Yosĕph put his hand on your eyes.”
Gen 46:5 And Ya‛aqoḇ rose up from Be’ĕrsheḇa. And the sons of Yisra’ĕl
brought their father Ya‛aqoḇ, and their little ones, and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
Gen 46:6 And they took their livestock and their property which they had
acquired in the land of Kena‛an, and came into Mitsrayim, Ya‛aqoḇ and all
his seed with him.
Gen 46:7 His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters,
and all his seed he brought with him to Mitsrayim.
Gen 46:8 And these were the names of the children of Yisra’ĕl, Ya‛aqoḇ and
his sons, who came into Mitsrayim: Re’uḇĕn was Ya‛aqoḇ’s first-born.
Gen 46:9 And the sons of Re’uḇĕn: Ḥanoḵ, and Pallu, and Ḥetsron, and
Karmi.
Gen 46:10 And the sons of Shim‛on: Yemu’ĕl, and Yamin, and Ohaḏ, and
Yaḵin, and Tsoḥar, and Sha’ul, son of a Kena‛anite woman.
Gen 46:11 And the sons of Lĕwi: Gĕreshon, Qehath, and Merari.
Gen 46:12 And the sons of Yehuḏah: Ĕr, and Onan, and Shĕlah, and Perets,
and Zeraḥ – but Ĕr and Onan died in the land of Kena‛an. And the sons of
Perets were Ḥetsron and Ḥamul.
Gen 46:13 And the sons of Yissasḵar: Tola, and Puw‛ah, and Yoḇ, and
Shimron.
Gen 46:14 And the sons of Zeḇulun: Sereḏ, and Ĕlon, and Yaḥle’ĕl.
Gen 46:15 These were the sons of Lĕ’ah, whom she bore to Ya‛aqoḇ in
Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the beings, his sons and his
daughters, were thirty-three.
Gen 46:16 And the sons of Gaḏ: Tsiphyon and Ḥaggi, Shuni and Etsbon, Ĕri
and Aroḏi, and Arĕli.
Gen 46:17 And the sons of Ashĕr: Yimnah, and Yishwah, and Yishwi, and
Beri‛ah, and Seraḥ, their sister. And the sons of Beri‛ah: Ḥeḇer and Malki’ĕl.
Gen 46:18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laḇan gave to Lĕ’ah his
daughter. And these she bore to Ya‛aqoḇ: sixteen beings.
Gen 46:19 The sons of Raḥĕl, Ya‛aqoḇ’s wife: Yosĕph and Binyamin.
Gen 46:20 And to Yosĕph in the land of Mitsrayim were born Menashsheh
and Ephrayim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore
to him.
Gen 46:21 And the sons of Binyamin: Belah, and Beḵer, and Ashbĕl, Gĕra
and Na‛aman, Ĕḥi and Rosh, Muppim and Ḥuppim, and Ard.
Gen 46:22 These were the sons of Raḥĕl who were born to Ya‛aqoḇ:
fourteen beings in all.
Gen 46:23 And the son of Dan: Ḥushim.
Gen 46:24 And the sons of Naphtali: Yaḥtse’ĕl, and Guni, and Yĕtser, and
Shillĕm.
Gen 46:25 These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laḇan gave to Raḥĕl his
daughter, and she bore these to Ya‛aqoḇ: seven beings in all.
Gen 46:26 All the beings who went with Ya‛aqoḇ to Mitsrayim, who came
from his body, besides Ya‛aqoḇ’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six beings in all.
Gen 46:27 And the sons of Yosĕph who were born to him in Mitsrayim were
two beings. All the beings of the house of Ya‛aqoḇ who went to Mitsrayim
were seventy.
Gen 46:28 And he sent Yehuḏah before him to Yosĕph, to point out before
him the way to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.
Gen 46:29 And Yosĕph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to
meet his father Yisra’ĕl. And he appeared to him, and fell on his neck and
wept on his neck a long time.
Gen 46:30 And Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “Now let me die, since I have seen
your face, that you are still alive.”
Gen 46:31 And Yosĕph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I
am going up to inform Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my
father’s house, who were in the land of Kena‛an, have come to me.
Gen 46:32 ‘And the men are shepherds, that they have been men of
livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds, and all that they
have.’
Gen 46:33 “And it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your
occupation?’
Gen 46:34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock
from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ so that you dwell
in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Mitsrites.”