1And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.
2And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:
4I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.
5Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them.
6And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:
7His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.