Genesis 46 · Parashat Vayigash

And Yisra᾽el took his journey with all that he had, and came to Be᾽er-sheva, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Yiżĥaq.

And God spoke to Yisra᾽el in the visions of the night, and said, Ya῾aqov, Ya῾aqov. And he said, Here I am.

And He said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down to Miżrayim; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

I will go down with thee into Miżrayim; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Yosef shall put his hand on thy eyes.

And Ya῾aqov rose up from Be᾽er-sheva, and the sons of Yisra᾽el carried Ya῾aqov their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Par῾o had sent to carry him.

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Kena῾an; and came to Miżrayim, Ya῾aqov, and all his seed with him:

his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him to Miżrayim.

And these are the names of the children of Yisra᾽el, who came into Miżrayim, Ya῾aqov and his sons: Re᾽uven, Ya῾aqov’s firstborn.

And the sons of Re᾽uven; Ḥanokh, and Pallu, and Ḥeżron, and Karmi.

And the sons of Shim῾on; Yemu᾽el, and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yakhin, and Żoĥar, and Sha᾽ul the son of the Kena῾anite woman.

And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Qehat, and Merari.

And the sons of Yehuda; ῾Er, and Onan, and Shela, and Pereż, and Zeraĥ: but ῾Er and Onan died in the land of Kena῾an. And the sons of Pereż were Ḥeżron and Ḥamul.

And the sons of Yissakhar; Tola, and Puvva, and Yov, and Shimron.

And the sons of Zevulun; Sered, and Elon, and Yaĥle᾽el.

These are the sons of Le᾽a, whom she bore to Ya῾aqov in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dina: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty three.

And the sons of Gad; Żifyon, and Ḥaggi, Shuni, and Eżbon, ῾Eri, and Arodi, and Ar᾽eli.

And the sons of Asher; Yimna, and Yishva, and Yishvi, and Beri῾a, and Seraĥ their sister: and the sons of Beri῾a were Ḥever and Malki᾽el.

These are the sons of Zilpa, whom Lavan gave to Le᾽a his daughter, and these she bore to Ya῾aqov, sixteen souls.

The sons of Raĥel, Ya῾aqov’s wife; Yosef and Binyamin.

And to Yosef in the land of Miżrayim were born Menashshe and Efrayim, whom Asenat, daughter of Poti-fera; the priest of On bore to him.

And the sons of Binyamin were Bela, and Bekher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Na῾aman, Eĥi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Ḥuppim, and Ard.

These are the sons of Raĥel, who were born to Ya῾aqov: all the souls were fourteen.

And the sons of Dan; Ḥushim.

And the sons of Naftali; Yaĥże᾽el, and Guni, and Yeżer, and Shillem.

These are the sons of Bilha, whom Lavan gave to Raĥel his daughter, and she bore these to Ya῾aqov: all the souls were seven.

All the souls that came with Ya῾aqov into Miżrayim, who came out of his loins, besides Ya῾aqov’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty six.

And the sons of Yosef, who were born him in Miżrayim, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Ya῾aqov who came into Miżrayim were seventy.

And he sent Yehuda before him to Yosef, to show the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

And Yosef made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisra᾽el his father, to Goshen, and presented himself to him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

And Yisra᾽el said to Yosef, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art still alive.

And Yosef said to his brethren, and to his father’s house, I will go up, and tell Par῾o, and say to him, My brethren, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Kena῾an, are come to me;

and the men are shepherds, for they have ever been owners of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

And it shall come to pass, when Par῾o shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

that you shall say, Thy servants’ trade has been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to Miżrayim.