THE FIRST BOOKE OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS. (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV â€” LARGE SCAN)

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CHAP. XLVI.

1 Iacob is comforted by God at Beersheba. 5 Thence hee with his company goeth into Egypt. 8 The number of his family that went into Egypt. 28 Ioseph meeteth Iacob. 31 Hee instructeth his brethren how to answere to Pharaoh.

¹ And Israel tooke his iourney with all that hee had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices vnto the God of his father Isaac.

² And God spake vnto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Iacob, Iacob. And he said, Here am I.

³ And he said, I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to goe downe into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation.

⁴ I will goe downe with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee vp againe: and Ioseph shall put his hand vpon thine eyes.

⁵ And Iacob rose vp from Beersheba: and the sonnes of Israel caried Iacob their father, and their litle ones, and their wiues, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to cary him.

⁶ And they tooke their cattell, and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Iacob, and all his seed with him:⁶

⁷ His sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes with him, his daughters, and his sonnes daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

⁸ ¶ And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Iacob and his sonnes: Reuben Iacobs first borne;⁸

⁹ And the sonnes of Reuben, Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

¹⁰ ¶ And the sonnes of Simeon: Iemuel, and Iamin, and Ohad, and Iachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the sonne of a Canaanitish woman.¹⁰

¹¹ ¶ And the sonnes of Leui: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.¹¹

¹² ¶ And the sonnes of Iudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: But Er & Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sonnes of Pharez, were Hezron, and Hamul.¹²

¹³ ¶ And the sonnes of Issachar: Tola, and Phuuah, and Iob, and Shimron.

¹⁴ ¶ And the sonnes of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Iahleel.¹⁴

¹⁵ These bee the sonnes of Leah, which she bare vnto Iacob in Padan-Aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the soules of his sonnes and his daughters, were thirtie and three.

¹⁶ ¶ And the sonnes of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

¹⁷ ¶ And the sonnes of Asher: Iimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: And the sonnes of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.¹⁷

¹⁸ These are the sonnes of Zilpah, whome Laban gaue to Leah his daughter: and these she bare vnto Iacob, euen sixteene soules.

¹⁹ The sonnes of Rachel Iacobs wife: Ioseph, and Beniamin.

²⁰ ¶ And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypt, were borne Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah Priest of On bare vnto him.²⁰

²¹ ¶ And the sonnes of Beniamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.²¹

²² These are the sonnes of Rachel which were borne to Iacob: all the soules were fourteene.

²³ ¶ And the sonnes of Dan: Hushim.

²⁴ ¶ And the sonnes of Naphtali: Iahzeel, and Guni, and Iezer, and Shillem.

²⁵ These are the sonnes of Bilhah, which Laban gaue vnto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these vnto Iacob: all the soules were seuen.

²⁶ All the soules that came with Iacob into Egypt, which came out of his loines, besides Iacobs sonnes wiues, all the soules were threescore and sixe.²⁶

²⁷ And the sonnes of Ioseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two soules: all the soules of the house of Iacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

²⁸ ¶ And he sent Iudah before him vnto Ioseph, to direct his face vnto Goshen, and they came into the lande of Goshen.

²⁹ And Ioseph made ready his charet, and went vp to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himselfe vnto him: and he fell on his necke, and wept on his necke a good while.

³⁰ And Israel saide vnto Ioseph, Now let me die, since I haue seene thy face, because thou art yet aliue.

³¹ And Ioseph said vnto his brethren, and vnto his fathers house, I will goe vp, and shew Pharaoh, and say vnto him, My brethren, & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me.

³² And the men are sheapheards, for their trade hath bene to feed cattell: and they haue brought their flocks, and their heards, and all that they haue.³²

³³ And it shall come to passe when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

³⁴ That ye shall say, Thy seruants trade hath bene about cattell, from our youth euen vntill now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for euery shepheard is an abomination vnto the Egyptians.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Genesis Chapter 46

⁶ Iosh.24. 4. psal. 105. 23. esai.52. 4.
⁸ Exod. 1.1. and 6.14. num. 26.8. and 1.chro. 5.1. , Num. 26. 5.
¹⁰ Exod. 6. 15. 1.chro. 4.24.
¹¹ 1.Chro.6. 1.
¹² 1.Chro.2. 3. and 4.21. chap. 38. 3.
¹⁴ 1.Chron. 7.1.
¹⁷ 1.Chro. 7. 30.
²⁰ Chap. 41. 50. , Or, Prince.
²¹ 1.Chron. 7.6. & 8.1.
²⁶ Deut. 10. 22. , Heb. thigh.
³² Hebr. they are men of cattell.

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