Israel toke his iourney with all that he had / and came vnto Berseba and offred offrynges vnto the God of his father Isaac. And God sayde vnto Israel in a vision by nyghte / and called vnto him: Iacob Iacob. And he answered: here am I. And he sayde: I am that mightie God of thy father / feare not to goo downe in to Egipte. For I will make of the there a great people. I will go downe with þe; in to Egipte / ∧ I will also bringe the vp agayne / ∧ Ioseph shall put his hand apon thine eyes.

And Iacob rose vp from Berseba. And þe; sonnes of Israel I caried Iacob their father / &abar;d

their childern and their wyues in the charettes which Pharao had sent to carie him. And they toke their catell &abar;d the goodes which they had gotten in the land of Canaan / and came in to Egipte: both Iacob and all his seed with him / his sonnes and his sonnes sonnes with him: his doughters and his sonnes doughters and all his seed brought he with him in to Egipte.

These are the names of the childern of Israel which came in to Egipte / both Iacob and his sonnes: Rub&ebar; Iacobs first sonne. The childern of Ruben: Hanoch / Pallu / Hezron and Charmi. The childern of Simeon: Iemuel / Iamin / Ohad / Iachin / Zohar and Saul the sonne of a Cananitish woman The childern of Leui: Gerson / Rahath and Merari. The childern of Iuda: Er / Onan / Sela / Pharez and Zerah / but Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Canaan. The childern of Pharez / Hezr&obar; ∧ Hamul. The childern of Isachar: Tola / Phuva Iob and Semnon. The childern of Sebulon: Sered / Elon and Iaheleel. These be the childern of Lea which she bare vnto Iacob in Mesopotamia with his doughter Dina. All these soulles of his sonnes and doughters make .xxx and .vi.

The childern of Gad: Ziphion / Haggi / Suni / Ezbon / Eri / Arodi and Areli. The childern of Asser: Iemna / Iesua / Iesui / Brya and Serah

their sister. And the childern of Brya were Heber and Malchiel. These are the childern of Silpha whom Lab&abar; gaue to Lea his doughter. And these she bare vnto Iacob in nombre xvi. soules.

The childern of Rahel Iacobs wife: Ioseph and ben Iamin. And vnto Ioseph in the l&obar;de of Egipte were borne: Manasses and Ephraim which Asnath the doughter of Potiphera preast of On bare vnto him. The childern of BenIamin: Bela / Becher / Asbel / Gera / Naeman / Ehi Ros Mupim / Hupim and Aro. These are the childern of Rahel which were borne vnto Iacob: xiiij. soules all to gether.

The childern of Dan: Husim. The childern of Nepthali? Iahezeel / Guni / Iezer and Sillem. These are the sonnes of Bilha which Laban gaue vnto Rahel his doughter / and she bare these vnto Iacob / all together .vij. soulles All the soulles that came with Iacob into Egipte which came out of his loyns (besyde his sonnes wifes) were all togither .lx. and .vi. soulles. And the sonnes of Ioseph / which were borne him in egipte were .ij. soules: So that all the soulles of the house of Iacob which came in to Egipte are lxx.

And he sent Iuda before him vnto Ioseph that the waye myghte be shewed him vnto Gosan / and they came in to the lande of Gosan And Ioseph made redie his charett and went agaynst Israell his father vnto Gosan / &abar;d presented

him selfe vnto him / and fell on his necke and wepte vpon his necke a goode whyle. And Israel sayd vnto Ioseph: Now I am c&obar;t&ebar;t to dye / in somoch I haue sene the / that thou art yet alyue.

And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethr&ebar; and vnto his fathers house: I will goo ∧ shewe Pharao and tell him: that my brethern and my fathers housse which were in the l&abar;de of Canaan are come vnto me / and how they are shepardes (for they were men of catell) and they haue brought their shepe and their oxen and all that they haue with them. Yf Pharao call you and axe you what youre occupation is / saye: thi seruauntes haue bene occupyed aboute catell / fr&obar; oure chilhode vnto this tyme: both we and oure fathers / that ye maye dwell in the lande of Gosan. For an abhominacyon vnto the Egiptians are all that feade shepe.

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