1. Israel set out with all that was his. When he arrived at Beer-sheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2. There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called: Jacob! Jacob! He answered, “Here I am.”
3. Then he said: I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation.
4. I will go down to Egypt with you and I will also bring you back here, after Joseph has closed your eyes.
5. So Jacob departed from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel put their father and their wives and children on the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
6. They took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan. So Jacob and all his descendants came to Egypt.
7. His sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters—all his descendants—he took with him to Egypt.
8. These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his children, who came to Egypt.Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,
9. and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
10. The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, son of a Canaanite woman.
11. The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah—but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.