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And Yisra’el journeyed with all that belonged to him and came to Be’er-Sheva, and slaughtered sacrifices to the Elohim of Yitzchaq his father.
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And Elohim spoke to Yisra’el in visions of the night and said, “Yaaqov, Yaaqov.” And he said, “See, I am here.”
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And He said, “I am El, the Elohim of your father. Do not fear to go down to Mitzrayim, for there I will make you into a great nation.
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I Myself will go down with you to Mitzrayim, and I Myself will surely bring you up again. And Yosef shall place his hand upon your eyes.”
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And Yaaqov rose from Be’er-Sheva. And the sons of Yisra’el carried Yaaqov their father, and their little ones, and their women, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Kena’an, and came to Mitzrayim, Yaaqov and all his seed with him.
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His sons and the sons of his sons with him, his daughters and the daughters of his sons, and all his seed he brought with him to Mitzrayim.
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And these are the names of the sons of Yisra’el who came to Mitzrayim, Yaaqov and his sons: Reuven, firstborn of Yaaqov.
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And the sons of Reuven: Chanokh, Pallu, Chetzron, and Karmi.
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And the sons of Shimon: Yemuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yakhin, Tzochar, and Shaul son of the Kena’anit.
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And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Qehat, and Merari.
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And the sons of Yehudah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Peretz, and Zerach. And Er and Onan died in the land of Kena’an. And the sons of Peretz were Chetzron and Chamul.
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And the sons of Yissakhar: Tola, Puvvah, Yov, and Shimron.
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And the sons of Zevulun: Sered, Elon, and Yachle’el.
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These are the sons of Leah, whom she brought forth to Yaaqov in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter. All the persons of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
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And the sons of Gad: Tzifion, Chaggi, Shuni, Etzbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
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And the sons of Asher: Yimnah, Yishvah, Yishvi, Beriah, and Serach their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Chever and Malki’el.
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These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Lavan gave to Leah his daughter, and she brought forth these to Yaaqov: sixteen persons.
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The sons of Rachel, the ishah of Yaaqov: Yosef and Binyamin.
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And to Yosef in the land of Mitzrayim were born Menasheh and Efrayim, whom Asenat daughter of Poti-Fera, kohen of On, brought forth to him.
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And the sons of Binyamin: Bela, Bekher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Echi, Rosh, Muppim, Chuppim, and Ard.
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These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Yaaqov: all the persons were fourteen.
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And the son of Dan: Chushim.
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And the sons of Naftali: Yachtze’el, Guni, Yetzer, and Shillem.
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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Lavan gave to Rachel his daughter, and she brought forth these to Yaaqov: all the persons were seven.
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All the persons who came with Yaaqov to Mitzrayim, who came forth from his body, apart from the women of the sons of Yaaqov, all the persons were sixty-six.
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And the sons of Yosef who were born to him in Mitzrayim were two persons. All the persons of the house of Yaaqov who came to Mitzrayim were seventy.
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And he sent Yehudah before him to Yosef, to direct his face toward Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.
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And Yosef harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Yisra’el his father in Goshen. And he appeared before him, and fell upon his neck, and wept upon his neck a long time.
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And Yisra’el said to Yosef, “Now let me die, after I have seen your face, because you are still alive.”
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And Yosef said to his brothers and to the house of his father, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and I will say to him, ‘My brothers and the house of my father, who were in the land of Kena’an, have come to me.
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And the men are shepherds of flocks, for they are men of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that belongs to them.’
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And it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’
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that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been men 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 of flocks is an abomination to Mitzrayim.”