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him. They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of
Kayinan, and came into Mitsrayim - Ya`aqob, and all his seed with him, his sons, and
his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his
seed with him into Mitsrayim.

These are the names of the children of Yisrael, who came into Mitsrayim,
Ya`aqob and his sons: Reuben, Ya`aqob’s firstborn. The sons of Reuben: Kanok, Pallu,
Hezron, and Karmi. The sons of Shimon: Yemuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yakin, Zohar, and
Shaul the son of a Kayinanite woman. The sons of Lawi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
The sons of Yehudah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the
land of Kayinan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. The sons of Yissakar:
Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron. The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Yakle’el. These
are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Ya`aqob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter
Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. The sons of Gad:
Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. The sons of Asher: Yimnah,
Yishwah, Yishwi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and
Malki’el. These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and
these she bore to Ya`aqob, even sixteen souls. The sons of Rakale, Ya`aqob’s wife:
Yoseph and Benyamin. To Yoseph in the land of Mitsrayim were born Manasseh and

Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. The sons
of Benyamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Na`aman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and
Ard. These are the sons of Rakale, who were born to Ya`aqob: all the souls were
fourteen. The son of Dan: Hushim. The sons of Naphtali: Yahze’el, Guni, Yezer, and
Shillem. These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rakale, his daughter, and
these she bore to Ya`aqob: all the souls were seven. All the souls who came with
Ya`aqob into Mitsrayim, who were his direct descendants, besides Ya`aqob’s sons’
wives, all the souls were sixty-six. The sons of Yoseph, who were born to him in
Mitsrayim, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Ya`aqob, who came into
Mitsrayim, were seventy.

He sent Yehudah before him to Yoseph, to show the way before him to Goshen,
and they came into the land of Goshen. Yoseph prepared his chariot, and went up to
meet Yisrael, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck,
and wept on his neck a good while. Yisrael said to Yoseph, “Now let me die, since I
have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
Yoseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak
with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the
land of Kayinan, have come to me. These men are shepherds, for they have been
keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that
they have.’ It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your
occupation?’ that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our

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