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.”
31. Then Joseph said to his brothers and to everyone who had come with them:I must go and tell the king that you have arrived from Canaan.
32. I will tell him that you are shepherds and that you have brought your sheep, goats, cattle, and everything else you own.
33. The king will call you in and ask what you do for a living.
34. When he does, be sure to say, “We are shepherds. Our families have always raised sheep.” If you tell him this, he will let you settle in the region of Goshen.Joseph wanted them to say this to the king, because the Egyptians did not like to have anything to do with people who raised sheep.