Chapter 44

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AND Yashar'el took his journey from Haran from his house on the New Moon of the third month, and he went on the way of the Well of the Oath, and he offered a sacrifice to the Elohiym of his father Yitschaq on the seventh of this month.

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And Ya`aqov remembered the dream that he had seen at Beyt-El, and he feared to go down into Mitsrayim.

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And while he was thinking of sending word to Yoceph to come to him, and that he would not go down, he remained there seven days, if perchance he could see a vision as to whether he should remain or go down.

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And he celebrated the Harvest Feast of the Firstfruits with old grain, for in all the land of Kena`an there was not a handful of seed in the land, for the famine was over all the beasts and cattle and birds, and also over man.

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And on the sixteenth Yahuah appeared unto him, and said unto him: Ya`aqov, Ya`aqov; and he said: Here am I. And he said unto him: I am the Elohiym of your fathers, the Elohiym of Avraham and Yitschaq; fear not to go down into Mitsrayim, for I will there make of you a great nation I will go down with you, and I will bring you up again, and in this land shall you be buried, and Yoceph shall put his hands upon your eyes.

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Fear not; go down into Mitsrayim.'

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And his sons rose up, and his sons' sons, and they placed their father and their possessions upon wagons.

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And Yashar'el rose up from the Well of the Oath on the sixteenth of this third month, and he went to the land of Mitsrayim.

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And Yashar'el sent Yahudah before him to his son Yoceph to examine the land of Goshen, for Yoceph had told his brothers that they should come and dwell there that they might be near him.

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And this was the goodliest land in the land of Mitsrayim, and near to him, for all of them and also for the cattle.

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And these are the names of the sons of Ya`aqov who went into Mitsrayim with Ya`aqov their father Re'uven, the firstborn of Yashar'el;

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And these are the names of his sons Chanok, and Pallu, and Chetsron and Karmiy, five.

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Shim`on and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Yemu'el, and Yamiyn, and Ohad, and Yakiyn, and Tsochar, and Sha'ul, the son of the Tsephathiy woman, seven.

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Leviy and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Gershon, and Qohath, and Merariy, four. Yahudah and his sons; and these are the names of his sons:

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Shelach, and Perets, and Zerach, four. Yisshakar and his sons; and these are the names of his sons:

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Tola, and Pu'ah, and Yov, and Shimron, five.

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Zevulun and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Cered, and Eylon, and Yachle'el, four.

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And these are the sons of Ya`aqov and their sons whom Le'ah bore to Ya`aqov in Aram Naharayim, six, and their one sister, Diynah and all the souls of the sons of Le'ah, and their sons, who went with Ya`aqov their father into Mitsrayim, were twenty nine, and Ya`aqov their father being with them, they were thirty.

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And the sons of Zilpah, Le'ah's handmaid, the woman of Ya`aqov, who bore unto Ya`aqov Gad and Asher.

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And there are the names of their sons who went with him into Mitsrayim. The sons of Gad: Tsiphyon, and Chaggiy, and Shuniy, and Etsbon, and Eriy, and Ar'eliy, and Arvadiy, eight.

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And the sons of Asher: Yimnah, and Yishvah, and Yishviy, and Beriy`ah, and Serach, their one sister, six.

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All the souls were fourteen, and all those of Le'ah were forty four.

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And the sons of Rachel, the woman of Ya`aqov: Yoceph and Binyamiyn.

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And there were born to Yoceph in Mitsrayim before his father came into Mitsrayim, those whom Acenath, daughter of Potiyphar priest of On bore unto him, Menashsheh, and Ephrayim, three.

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And the sons of Binyamiyn: Bela and Beker and Ashbel, Gera, and Na`aman, and Echiy, and Ro'sh, and Muppiym, and Chuppiym, and Ard, eleven.

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And all the souls of Rachel were fourteen.

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And the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel, the woman of Ya`aqov, whom she bore to Ya`aqov, were Dan and Naphtaliy.

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And these are the names of their sons who went with them into Mitsrayim. And the sons of Dan were Chushiym, and Samon, and Asudi, and Iyaka, and Salomon, six.

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And they died the year in which they entered into Mitsrayim, and there was left to Dan Chushiym alone.

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And these are the names of the sons of Naphtaliy Yachtse'el, and Guniy and Yetser, and Shallum, and Iv.

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And Iv, who was born after the years of famine, died in Mitsrayim.

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And all the souls of Rachel were twenty six. And all the souls of Ya`aqov which went into Mitsrayim were seventy souls.

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These are his children and his children's children, in all seventy, but five died in Mitsrayim before Yoceph, and had no children.

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And in the land of Kena`an two sons of Yahudah died, Er and Onan, and they had no children, and the children of Yashar'el buried those who perished, and they were reckoned among the seventy nations of the goyiym.



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