Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Jacob and His Family Go to Egypt
1 Jacob packed up all he had
and went to Beersheba,
where he offered sacrifices to the
God of his father Isaac.
2 God spoke
to him in a vision at night and called,
“Jacob, Jacob!”
2 “Yes, here I am,” he answered.
3 “I am God, the God of your father,”
he said. “Do not be afraid to
go to Egypt; I will make your descendants
a great nation there.
4 I
will go with you to Egypt, and I will
bring your descendants back to this
land. Joseph will be with you when
you die.”
5 Jacob set out from Beersheba.
His sons put him, their small children,
and their wives in the wagons
which the king of Egypt had sent.
6 They took their livestock and the
possessions they had acquired in Canaan
and went to Egypt. Jacob took
all his descendants with him: note
7 his
sons, his grandsons, his daughters,
and his granddaughters.
8 The members of Jacob's family
who went to Egypt with him were
his oldest son Reuben
9 and Reuben's
sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron,
and Carmi.
10 Simeon and his sons:
Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar,
and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite
woman.
11 Levi and his sons: Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
12 Judah
and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah.
(Judah's other sons, Er and
Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez'
sons were Hezron and Hamul.
13 Issachar
and his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub,
and Shimron.
14 Zebulun and
his sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These are the sons that Leah had
borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides
his daughter Dinah. In all, his
descendants by Leah numbered
thirty-three.
16 Gad and his sons: Zephon, Haggi,
Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arod, and
Areli.
17 Asher and his sons: Imnah,
Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister
Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and
Malchiel.
18 These sixteen are the descendants
of Jacob by Zilpah, the
slave girl whom Laban gave to his
daughter Leah.
19 Jacob's wife Rachel bore him
two sons: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 In
Egypt Joseph had two sons, Manasseh
and Ephraim, by Asenath, the
daughter of Potiphera, a priest in
Heliopolis. note
21 Benjamin's sons were
Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman,
Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim,
and Ard.
22 These fourteen are the
descendants of Jacob by Rachel.
23 Dan and his son Hushim.
24 Naphtali and his sons: Jahzeel,
Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These
seven are the descendants of Jacob
by Bilhah, the slave girl whom Laban
gave to his daughter Rachel.
26 The total number of the direct
descendants of Jacob who went to
Egypt was sixty-six, not including
his sons' wives.
27 Two sons were
born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to
seventy the total number of Jacob's
family who went there. note
Jacob and His Family in Egypt
28 Jacob sent Judah ahead to ask
Joseph to meet them in Goshen.
When they arrived,
29 Joseph got in
his chariot and went to Goshen to
meet his father. When they met,
Joseph threw his arms around his father's
neck and cried for a long time.
30 Jacob said to Joseph, “I am ready
to die, now that I have seen you and
know that you are still alive.”
31 Then Joseph said to his brothers
and the rest of his father's family, “I
must go and tell the king that my
brothers and all my father's family,
who were living in Canaan, have
come to me.
32 I will tell him that you
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are shepherds and take care of livestock
and that you have brought
your flocks and herds and everything
else that belongs to you.
33 When the king calls for you and
asks what your occupation is,
34 be
sure to tell him that you have taken
care of livestock all your lives, just
as your ancestors did. In this way he
will let you live in the region of Goshen.”
Joseph said this because
Egyptians will have nothing to do
with shepherds.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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