1. So Israel started out with everything that belonged to him. When he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2. God spoke to Israel in a vision at night. "Jacob! Jacob!" he said. "Here I am," Jacob replied.
3. "I am God. I am the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt. There I will make you into a great nation.
4. I will go down to Egypt with you. You can be sure that I will bring you back again. And when you die, Joseph will close your eyes with his own hand."
5. Then Jacob left Beersheba. Israel's sons put their father Jacob and their families in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry them.
6. So Jacob and his whole family went to Egypt. They took their livestock with them. And they took everything they had gotten in Canaan.