1 En Israel het weggetrek met alles wat aan hom behoort het, en in Bers,ba gekom; en hy het offerandes gebring aan die God van sy vader Isak.
2 En God het tot Israel gespreek in naggesigte en gesê: Jakob, Jakob! En hy antwoord: Hier is ek!
3 Toe sê Hy: Ek is God, die God van jou vader. Moenie bevrees wees om na Egipte af te trek nie, want Ek sal jou daar 'n groot nasie maak.
4 Ek sal saam met jou aftrek na Egipte, en Ek sal jou gewis ook weer laat optrek; en Josef sal jou oë toedruk.
5 Daarna het Jakob weggetrek van Bers,ba af. En die seuns van Israel het hulle vader Jakob met hulle kinders en hulle vroue op die waens gelaai wat Farao gestuur het om hom te vervoer.
6 En hulle het hul vee en besittings geneem wat hulle in die land Kana„n verwerf het, en in Egipte gekom, Jakob en sy hele geslag saam met hom:
7 sy seuns en sy kleinseuns saam met hom; sy dogters en kleindogters en sy hele geslag het hy saam met hom in Egipte gebring.
8 En dit is die name van die seuns van Israel wat in Egipte gekom het -- Jakob en sy seuns. Die eersgeborene van Jakob was Ruben.
9 En die seuns van Ruben: Henog en Pallu en Hesron en Karmi.
10 En die seuns van S¡meon: J,muel en Jamin en Ohad en Jagin en Sohar en Saul, die seun van die Kana„nitiese vrou.
11 En die seuns van Levi: Gerson, Kehat en Mer ri.
12 En die seuns van Juda: Er en Onan en Sela en Peres en Serag. Maar Er en Onan het gesterwe in die land Kana„n; en die seuns van Peres was Hesron en Hamul.
13 En die seuns van Issaskar: Tola en Puwa en Job en Simron.
14 En die seuns van S,bulon: Sered en Elon en J gleël.
15 Dit is die seuns van Lea wat sy vir Jakob gebaar het in Paddan-Aram, saam met sy dogter Dina; al die siele van sy seuns en dogters was drie en dertig.
16 En die seuns van Gad: Sifjon en Haggi, Suni en Esbon, Eri en Arodi en Areëli.
17 En die seuns van Aser: Jimna en Jiswa en Jiswi en Ber¡a en Serag, hulle suster; en die seuns van Ber¡a: Heber en M lkiël.
18 Dit is die seuns van Silpa wat Laban aan sy dogter Lea gegee het; en sy het vir Jakob hierdie sestien siele gebaar.
19 Die seuns van Ragel, die vrou van Jakob: Josef en Benjamin.
20 En vir Josef is in Egipteland gebore Manasse en Efraim wat Asenat, die dogter van Potif,ra, die priester van On, vir hom gebaar het.
21 En die seuns van Benjamin: Bela en Beger en Asbel, Gera en Na„man, Egi en Ros, Muppim en Huppim en Ard.
22 Dit is die seuns van Ragel wat vir Jakob gebore is, almal saam veertien siele.
23 En die seuns van Dan: Husim.
24 En die seuns van N ftali: J gseël en Guni en Jeser en Sillem.
25 Dit is die seuns van Bilha wat Laban aan sy dogter Ragel gegee het; en sy het hulle vir Jakob gebaar, almal saam sewe siele.
26 Al die siele wat aan Jakob behoort het en, uit sy heup afkomstig, na Egipte gegaan het, behalwe die vroue van die seuns van Jakob, was almal saam ses en sestig siele.
27 En die seuns van Josef wat vir hom in Egipte gebore is, was twee siele. Al die siele van die huis van Jakob wat in Egipte gekom het, was sewentig.
28 En hy het Juda voor hom uit gestuur na Josef, dat die voor hom uit die pad moes wys na Gosen; en hulle het in die land Gosen aangekom.
29 Toe span Josef sy wa in, en hy trek op, sy vader Israel tegemoet na Gosen. En toe hy homself aan hom vertoon, het hy om sy hals geval en lank aan sy hals geween.
30 En Israel sê vir Josef: Nou kan ek sterwe nadat ek jou aangesig gesien het, dat jy nog leef!
31 Daarna het Josef met sy broers en die huis van sy vader gespreek: Ek sal optrek en aan Farao vertel en aan hom sê: My broers en die huis van my vader wat in die land Kana„n was, het na my gekom.
32 En die manne is herders van kleinvee -- want hulle was veeboere -- en hulle het hul kleinvee en hul beeste en alles wat hulle besit, saamgebring.
33 En as Farao julle laat roep en sê: Wat is julle nering?
34 dan moet julle antwoord: U dienaars was veeboere van ons jeug af tot nou toe, ons sowel as ons vaders -- sodat julle in die land Gosen kan woon. Want elke herder van kleinvee is vir die Egiptenaars 'n gruwel.
1 And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:
4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.
5 Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them.
6 And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:
7 His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son;
9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;
10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan;
11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
12 And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron;
14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel;
15 All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.
16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;
17 And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
18 These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.
19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On.
21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
22 All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons.
23 And the son of Dan was Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.
25 These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.
26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.
27 And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.
28 Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.
29 And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping.
30 And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.
31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;
32 And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.
33 Now when Pharaoh sends for you and says, What is your business?
34 You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.