Chapter 46
Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” He said, “Here I am.”
3He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
4I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
5Jacob rose from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6They took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him.
7His sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his offspring he brought with him to Egypt.
8These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
9The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvvah, Yob, and Shimron.
14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah. All the persons, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three.
16The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
17The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen persons.
19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
20To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
21The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
22These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons in all.
23The son of Dan: Hushim.
24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob: seven persons in all.
26All the persons who came to Jacob in Egypt, who came from his own body, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all.
27The sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.
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The chapter itself gives the figures: thirty-three, sixteen, fourteen, and seven, then sixty-six who came with Jacob, two sons of Joseph born in Egypt, and seventy for the house of Jacob. The arithmetic is not adjusted. Er and Onan are named and said to have died in Canaan. A Greek count of this list is larger. It is not substituted.
28He sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came to the land of Goshen.
29Joseph hitched his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He appeared to him, fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a long while.
30Israel said to Joseph, “Now I can die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
31Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh. I will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
32The men are shepherds of flocks, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
33When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your work?’
34you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd of flocks is detestable to Egyptians.”