Genesis 46-47New King James Version (NKJV)
Jacob’s Journey to Egypt
46 So Israel took his journey with all that he
had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father
Isaac. 2 Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of
the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
3 So He said, “I am God,
the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you
a great nation there. 4 I will go down with you to
Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph
will put his hand on your eyes.”
5 Then Jacob arose from Beersheba;
and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their
wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 So
they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land
of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.7 His
sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his
descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
8 Now these were the
names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt:
Reuben was Jacob’s firstborn. 9 The
sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10 The
sons of Simeon were Jemuel,[a] Jamin, Ohad, Jachin,[b] Zohar,[c] and Shaul, the son of
a Canaanite woman. 11 The sons of Levi were Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari. 12 The sons of Judah were Er,
Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan).
The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 The
sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah,[d] Job,[e] and Shimron. 14 The
sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These were the
sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah.
All the persons, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three.
16 The sons of Gad were Ziphion,[f] Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon,[g] Eri, Arodi,[h] and Areli.17 The
sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah,
their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and
Malchiel. 18 These were the sons
of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob:
sixteen persons.
19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s
wife, were Joseph and Benjamin. 20 And
to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath,
the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him. 21 The
sons of Benjamin wereBelah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi,
Rosh, Muppim, Huppim,[i] and Ard.22 These were the
sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons in all.
23 The son of Dan was Hushim.[j] 24 The
sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel,[k] Guni, Jezer, and
Shillem.[l] 25 These were the
sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to
Jacob: seven persons in all.
26 All the persons who went with
Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six
persons in all. 27 And the sons of Joseph who were
born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the
house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.
Jacob Settles in Goshen
28 Then he sent Judah before him to
Joseph, to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they
came to the land of Goshen. 29 So Joseph made ready
his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented
himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
30 And Israel said to Joseph, “Now
let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still
alive.”
31 Then Joseph said to his brothers
and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him,
‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the
land of Canaan, have come to me. 32 And the
men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed
livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they
have.’ 33 So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you
and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34 that you
shall say, ‘Your servants’ occupation has been with livestock from our youth
even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may
dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
abomination to the Egyptians.”
47 Then Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said,
“My father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they
possess, have come from the land of Canaan; and indeed they are in
the land of Goshen.” 2 And he took five men from
among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh. 3 Then
Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?”
And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds,
both we and also our fathers.” 4 And
they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to dwell in the land, because your servants
have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is severe in
the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land
of Goshen.”
5 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph,
saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 The
land of Egypt is before you. Have your father and brothers
dwell in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you
know any competent men among them, then make them chief
herdsmen over my livestock.”
7 Then Joseph brought in his father
Jacob and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 Pharaoh
said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The
days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty
years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have
not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of
their pilgrimage.” 10 So Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and
went out from before Pharaoh.
11 And Joseph situated his father and
his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of
the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 Then
Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with
bread, according to the number in their families.
Joseph Deals with the Famine
13 Now there was no
bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that
the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.14 And
Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the
land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money
into Pharaoh’s house.
15 So when the money failed in the
land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and
said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the money has
failed.”
16 Then Joseph said, “Give your
livestock, and I will give you bread for your livestock, if
the money is gone.” 17 So they brought their
livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for
the horses, the flocks, the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys. Thus he
fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that
year.
18 When that year had ended, they
came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our
money is gone; my lord also has our herds of livestock. There is nothing left
in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.19 Why
should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for
bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharaoh; give us seed,
that we may live and not die, that the land may not be desolate.”
20 Then Joseph bought all the land of
Egypt for Pharaoh; for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the
famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s. 21 And
as for the people, he moved them into the cities,[m] from one end
of the borders of Egypt to the other end. 22 Only
the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had rations allotted
to them by Pharaoh, and they ate their rations which Pharaoh gave
them; therefore they did not sell their lands.
23 Then Joseph said to the people,
“Indeed I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Look, here
is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24 And
it shall come to pass in the harvest that you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh.
Four-fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and for your food, for
those of your households and as food for your little ones.”
25 So they said, “You have saved our
lives; let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s
servants.” 26 And Joseph made it a law over the
land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have one-fifth,
except for the land of the priests only, which did not become
Pharaoh’s.
Joseph’s Vow to Jacob
27 So Israel dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and grew and
multiplied exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the
land of Egypt seventeen years. So the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred
and forty-seven years. 29 When the time drew near
that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Now if I have
found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly
and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt, 30 but
let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in
their burial place.”
And he said, “I will do as you have said.”
31 Then he said, “Swear to me.” And
he swore to him. So Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed.
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