New English Translation

Genesis 46:19-33 New English Translation (NET)

19. The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

20. Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore them to him.

21. The sons of Benjamin:Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.

22. These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob, fourteen in all.

23. The son of Dan: Hushim.

24. The sons of Naphtali:Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25. These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

26. All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)

27. Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.

28. Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

29. Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

30. Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”

31. Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, ‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

32. The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

33. Pharaoh will summon you and say, ‘What is your occupation?’