Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Genesis 46:16-18-33 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

16-18. Jacob and Zilpah, the servant woman Laban had given his daughter Leah, had a total of sixteen children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.Their son Gad took his sons Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.Their son Asher took his sons Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, who took his sons, Heber and Malchiel.Serah, the daughter of Asher, also went.

19-22. Jacob and Rachel had fourteen children and grandchildren.Their son Joseph was already in Egypt, where he had married Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of Heliopolis. Joseph and Asenath had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Jacob and Rachel's son Benjamin took his sons Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

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.