1. Jacob packed up everything he owned and left for Egypt. On the way he stopped near the town of Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God his father Isaac had worshipped.
2. That night, God spoke to him and said, “Jacob! Jacob!”“Here I am,” Jacob answered.
3. God said, “I am God, the same God your father worshipped. Don't be afraid to go to Egypt. I will give you so many descendants that one day they will become a nation.
4. I will go with you to Egypt, and later I will bring your descendants back here. Your son Joseph will be at your side when you die.”
16-18. Jacob and Zilpah, the servant woman Laban had given his daughter Leah, had a total of sixteen children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.Their son Gad took his sons Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.Their son Asher took his sons Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, who took his sons, Heber and Malchiel.Serah, the daughter of Asher, also went.
19-22. Jacob and Rachel had fourteen children and grandchildren.Their son Joseph was already in Egypt, where he had married Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of Heliopolis. Joseph and Asenath had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Jacob and Rachel's son Benjamin took his sons Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
23-25. Jacob and Bilhah, the servant woman Laban had given his daughter Rachel, had seven children and grandchildren.Their son Dan took his son Hushim.Their son Naphtali took his sons Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
26. Sixty-six members of Jacob's family went to Egypt with him, not counting his daughters-in-law.
27. Jacob's two grandsons who were born there made it a total of seventy members of Jacob's family in Egypt.
28. Jacob had sent his son Judah ahead of him to ask Joseph to meet them in Goshen.
29. So Joseph got in his chariot and went to meet his father. When they met, Joseph hugged his father around the neck and cried for a long time.
30. Jacob said to Joseph, “Now that I have seen you and know you are still alive, I am ready to die.”