Genesis 46:23-34 Modern English Version (MEV)

23. The son of Dan wasHushim.

24. The sons of Naphtali:Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25. These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

26. All those who came with Jacob to Egypt, who were direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six in all.

27. And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All those of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.

28. Now he sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen.

29. Joseph readied his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father. As soon as he appeared to him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.

30. Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.”

31. 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 my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32. The men are shepherds; their work has been to feed livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

33. When Pharaoh calls you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’

34. you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, because every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

Genesis 46