Those Who Came to Egypt

Now these are the (A)names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10 And the (B)sons of Simeon: [a]Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, [b]Jachin, [c]Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. 11 And the sons of Levi: [d]Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the (C)sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, [e]Puvvah, [f]Iob, and Shimron. 14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; [g]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. 16 And the (D)sons of Gad: [h]Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, [i]Ezbon, Eri, [j]Arodi, and Areli. 17 And the (E)sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the (F)sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons. 19 The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 20 (G)Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. 21 And the (H)sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, [k]Ehi, Rosh, [l]Muppim, [m]Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all. 23 And the sons of Dan: [n]Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali: [o]Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and [p]Shillem. 25 These are the (I)sons of Bilhah, whom (J)Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all. 26 (K)All the people belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, [q]his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all, 27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were [r]two; (L)all the people of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 46:10 In Num 26:12 and 1 Chr 4:24, Nemuel
  2. Genesis 46:10 In 1 Chr 4:24, Jarib
  3. Genesis 46:10 In Num 26:13 and 1 Chr 4:24, Zerah
  4. Genesis 46:11 In 1 Chr 6:16, Gershom
  5. Genesis 46:13 In Num 26:23, Puvah; in 1 Chr 7:1, Puah
  6. Genesis 46:13 In Num 26:24 and 1 Chr 7:1, Jashub
  7. Genesis 46:15 Lit all the souls of
  8. Genesis 46:16 In Num 26:15, Zephon
  9. Genesis 46:16 In Num 26:16, Ozni
  10. Genesis 46:16 In Num 26:17, Arod
  11. Genesis 46:21 In Num 26:38, Ahiram
  12. Genesis 46:21 In Num 26:39, Shephupham; in 1 Chr 7:12, Shuppim
  13. Genesis 46:21 In Num 26:39, Hupham
  14. Genesis 46:23 In Num 26:42, Shuham
  15. Genesis 46:24 In 1 Chr 7:13, Jahziel
  16. Genesis 46:24 In 1 Chr 7:13, Shallum
  17. Genesis 46:26 Lit who came out of his loins
  18. Genesis 46:27 Lit two souls

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