Sefer HaYoveliym — Maṣḥafa Kufale — Chapter 44

And Yis’rael took his journey from Haran from his house on the new moon of the third month, and he went on the way of the Well of the Oath, and he offered a sacrifice to the Elohim of his father Yitschaq on the seventh of this month.

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And Ya’aqov remembered the dream that he had seen at Beit-El, and he feared to go down into Mitsrayim.

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And while he was thinking of sending word to Yoseph to come to him, and that he would not go down, he remained there seven days, if perchance he should see a vision as to whether he should remain or go down.

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And he celebrated the harvest festival of the first-fruits with old grain, for in all the land of Kena’an there was not a handful of seed (in the land), for the famine was over all the beasts and cattle and birds, and also over man.

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And on the sixteenth Yahuah appeared to him, and said to him, "Ya’aqov, Ya’aqov"; and he said, "Here am I."

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And He said to him: "I am the Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Avraham and Yitschaq; fear not to go down into Mitsrayim, for I will there make of you a great nation.

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I shall go down with you, and I shall bring you up (again), and in this land will you be buried, and Yoseph will put his hands upon your eyes. Fear not; go down into Mitsrayim."

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And his sons rose up, and his sons'sons, and they placed their father and their possessions upon wagons.

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And Yis’rael rose up from the Well of the Oath on the sixteenth of this third month, and he went to the land of Mitsrayim.

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And Yis’rael sent Yehudah before him to his son Yoseph to examine the Land of Goshen,

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for Yoseph had told his brothers that they should come and dwell there that they might be near him.

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And this was the goodliest (land) in the land of Mitsrayim, and near to him, for all (of them) and also for the cattle.

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And these are the names of the sons of Ya’aqov who went into Mitsrayim with Ya’aqov their father.

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Re’uven, the first-born of Yis’rael;

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and these are the names of his sons: Chanokh, and Pallu, and Hezron and Carmi--five.

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Shim’on and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of the Zephathite woman--seven.

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Levi and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari--four.

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Yehudah and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Shela, and Perez, and Zerah--four.

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Yissakhar and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Tola, and Phûa, and Jâsûb, and Shimron--five.

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Zebulon and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel--four.

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And these are the sons of Ya’aqov, and their sons, whom Le’ah bore to Ya’aqov in Mesopotamia, six, and their one sister, Diynah:

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and all the souls of the sons of Le’ah, and their sons, who went with Ya’aqov their father into Mitsrayim, were twenty-nine, and Ya’aqov their father being with them, they were thirty.

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And the sons of Zilpah, Le’ah's handmaid, the wife of Ya’aqov, whom she bore to Ya’aqov, Gad and Asher.

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And these are the names of their sons who went with him into Mitsrayim: the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, and Shuni, and Ezbon, (and Eri) and Areli, and Arodi--eight.

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And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, (and Ishvi), and Beriah, and Serah, their one sister--six. All the souls were fourteen, and all those of Le’ah were forty-four.

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And the sons of Rachel, the wife of Ya’aqov: Yoseph and Binyamin.

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And there were born to Yoseph in Mitsrayim before his father came into Mitsrayim, those whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphar priest of Heliopolis bare to him, Manasseh, and Ephraim--three.

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And the sons of Binyamin: Bela and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, and Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard--eleven. And all the souls of Rachel were fourteen.

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And the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel, the wife of Ya’aqov, whom she bare to Ya’aqov, were Dan and Naphtaliy.

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And these are the names of their sons who went with them into Mitsrayim. And the sons of Dan were Hushim, and Sâmôn, and Asûdî, and ’Îjâka, and Salômôn--six.

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And they died the year in which they entered into Mitsrayim, and there was left to Dan Hushim alone.

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And these are the names of the sons of Naphtaliy: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, and ‘Îv.

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And ‘Îv, who was born after the years of famine, died in Mitsrayim. And all the souls of Rachel were twenty-six.

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And all the souls of Ya’aqov which went into Mitsrayim were seventy souls.

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These are his children and his children's children, in all seventy; but five died in Mitsrayim before Yoseph, and had no children.

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And in the land of Kena’an two sons of Yehudah died, Er and Onan, and they had no children,

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and the children of Yis’rael buried those who perished, and they were reckoned among the seventy one of the nations nations.

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