[7] His sons, and his sons'
sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' 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,
Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. [9]
And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, 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 Canaanitish woman.
[11] And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari. [12] And the sons of Judah;
Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in
the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
[13] And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah,
and Job, and Shimron. [14] And the
sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. [15]
These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with
his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty
and three. [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 Ishuah,
and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber,
and Malchiel. [18] These are the sons
of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto
Jacob, even sixteen souls. [19] The
sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. [20]
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which
Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
[21] And the sons of Benjamin were Belah,
and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim,
and Ard. [22] These are the sons of
Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. [23]
And the sons of Dan; Hushim. [24] And
the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
[25] These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban
gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls
were seven. [26] All the souls that
came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's
sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; [27]
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all
the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore
and ten. [28] And he sent Judah before
him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the
land of Goshen. [29] And Joseph made
ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and
presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck
a good while.
All his seed - 'Tis probable they continued to live together
in common with their father, and therefore when he went they all went;
which perhaps they were the more willing to do, because, tho' they had
heard that the land of Canaan was promised them, yet to this day they had
none of it in possession. We have here a particular account of the names
of Jacob's family; his sons sons, most of which are afterwards mentioned,
as heads of houses in the several tribes. See Numbers 26:5, &c.Issachar
called his eldest son Tola, which signifies a worm, probably because when
he was born he was a little weak child, not likely to live, and yet there
sprang from him a very numerous off - spring, 1 Chronicles 7:2. The whole
number that went down intoEgypt were sixty - six, to which add Joseph and
his two sons, who were there before, and Jacob himself, the head of the
family, and you have the number of seventy. 'Twas now 215 years since God
had promised Abraham to make of him a great nation, Genesis 12:2, and yet
that branch of his seed, on which the promise was entailed, was as yet
increased but to seventy, of which this particular account is kept, that
the power of God in multiplying these seventy to so vast a multitude, even
in Egypt, may be the more illustrious. When he pleases, A little one shall
become a thousand.
[30] And Israel said unto Joseph,
Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
[31] And Joseph said unto his brethren, and
unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him,
My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are
come unto me; [32] And the men are
shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought
their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. [33]
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say,
What is your occupation? [34] That
ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth
even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the
land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Now let me die - Not but that it was farther desirable
to live with Joseph, and to see his honour and usefulness; but he had so
much satisfaction in this first meeting, that he thought it too much to
desire or expect any more in this world.
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