1. And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2. And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here am I.
3. And he said, I am ·God the God of thy father: fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation.
4. I will go down with thee to Egypt, and I will also certainly bring thee up; and Joseph shall put his hand on thine eyes.
5. And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, on the waggons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6. And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him;
7. his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt.
8. And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt: Jacob and his sons. Jacob's firstborn, Reuben.
9. And the sons of Reuben: Enoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10. --And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
11. --And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12. --And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pherez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
13. --And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, and Job, and Shimron.