1. These are the names of the Israelites who came to Egypt with Jacob along with their households:
2. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3. Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4. Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5. The total number in Jacob’s family was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.
6. Eventually, Joseph, his brothers, and everyone in his generation died.
7. But the Israelites were fertile and became populous. They multiplied and grew dramatically, filling the whole land.
8. Now a new king came to power in Egypt who didn’t know Joseph.
9. He said to his people, "The Israelite people are now larger in number and stronger than we are.