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.”
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.”