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Book of Genesis, Chapter 46

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Chapter 46 of Genesis—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Accordingly Israel and all who were his pulled out and came to Beʹer-sheʹba,1 and he proceeded to sacrifice sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.2
  2. Then God talked to Israel in visions of the night and said:3 “Jacob, Jacob!” to which he said: “Here I am!”4
  3. And he went on to say: “I am the [true] God,5 the God of your father.[a]6 Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I shall constitute you there into a great nation.7
  4. I myself shall go down with you to Egypt and I myself shall surely bring you up also;8 and Joseph will lay his hand upon your eyes.”[b]9
  5. ¶ After that Jacob got up out of Beʹer-sheʹba, and the sons of Israel continued transporting Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons that Pharʹaoh had sent to transport him.10
  6. Further, they took along their herds and their goods, which they had accumulated in the land of Caʹnaan.11 Eventually they came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him.
  7. He brought his sons and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, even all his offspring, with him into Egypt.12
  8. ¶ Now these are the names of Israel’s sons who came into Egypt:13 Jacob and his sons: Jacob’s firstborn was Reuʹben.14
  9. ¶ And the sons of Reuʹben were Haʹnoch and Palʹlu and Hezʹron and Carʹmi.15
  10. ¶ And the sons of Simʹe·on16 were Jem·uʹel and Jaʹmin and Oʹhad and Jaʹchin17 and Zoʹhar and Shaʹul18 the son of a Caʹnaan·ite woman.
  11. ¶ And the sons of Leʹvi19 were Gerʹshon,20 Koʹhath21 and Me·rarʹi.22
  12. ¶ And the sons of Judah23 were Er24 and Oʹnan25 and Sheʹlah26 and Peʹrez27 and Zeʹrah.28 However, Er and Oʹnan died in the land of Caʹnaan.29
    ¶ And the sons of Peʹrez came to be Hezʹron30 and Haʹmul.31
  13. ¶ And the sons of Isʹsa·char32 were Toʹla33 and Puʹvah34 and Iob and Shimʹron.35
  14. ¶ And the sons of Zebʹu·lun36 were Seʹred and Eʹlon and Jahʹle·el.37
  15. ¶ These are the sons of Leʹah,38 whom she bore to Jacob in Padʹdan-aʹram, together with his daughter Diʹnah.39 All the souls of his sons and of his daughters were thirty-three.
  16. ¶ And the sons of Gad40 were Ziphʹi·on and Hagʹgi, Shuʹni and Ezʹbon, Eʹri and Ar·oʹdi and A·reʹli.41
  17. ¶ And the sons of Ashʹer42 were Imʹnah and Ishʹvah and Ishʹvi and Be·riʹah,43 and there was Seʹrah their sister.
    ¶ And the sons of Be·riʹah were Heʹber and Malʹchi·el.44
  18. ¶ These are the sons of Zilʹpah,45 whom Laʹban gave to his daughter Leʹah. In time she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.
  19. ¶ The sons of Rachel,46 Jacob’s wife, were Joseph47 and Benjamin.48
  20. ¶ And there came to be born to Joseph in the land of Egypt Ma·nasʹseh49 and Eʹphra·im,[c]50 whom Asʹe·nath51 the daughter of Pot·iʹphe·ra the priest of On bore to him.
  21. ¶ And the sons of Benjamin were Beʹla52 and Beʹcher53 and Ashʹbel, Geʹra54 and Naʹa·man,55 Eʹhi and Rosh, Mupʹpim56 and Hupʹpim57 and Ard.
  22. ¶ These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob. All the souls were fourteen.
  23. ¶ And the sons of Dan58 were Huʹshim.59
  24. ¶ And the sons of Naphʹta·li60 were Jahʹze·el and Guʹni61 and Jeʹzer and Shilʹlem.62
  25. ¶ These are the sons of Bilʹhah,63 whom Laʹban gave to his daughter Rachel. In time she bore these to Jacob; all the souls were seven.
  26. ¶ All the souls who came to Jacob into Egypt were those who issued out of his upper thigh,64 aside from the wives of Jacob’s sons. All the souls were sixty-six.
  27. And Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.[d]65
  28. ¶ And he sent Judah66 in advance of him to Joseph to impart information ahead of him[e] to Goʹshen. After that they came into the land of Goʹshen.[f]67
  29. Then Joseph had his chariot made ready and went up to meet Israel his father at Goʹshen.68 When he appeared to him he at once fell upon his neck and gave way to tears upon his neck again and again.69
  30. Finally Israel said to Joseph: “This time I am willing to die,70 now that I have seen your face, since you are still alive.”
  31. ¶ Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household: “Let me go up and report to Pharʹaoh and say to him,71 ‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Caʹnaan have come here to me.72
  32. And the men are shepherds,73 because they became stock raisers;74 and their flocks and their herds and all they have they have brought here.’75
  33. And what must occur is that when Pharʹaoh will call YOU and actually say, ‘What is YOUR occupation?’
  34. YOU must say, ‘Your servants have continued to be stock raisers from our youth until now, both we and our forefathers,’76 in order that YOU may dwell in the land of Goʹshen,77 because every herder of sheep is a detestable thing to Egypt.”78

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “I, the [true] God, am the God of your father.”
  2. ^ That is, to close them at Jacob’s death.
  3. ^ After “Ephraim” LXX adds five more names, as it reads: “But there were sons born to Manasseh, whom his Syrian concubine bore to him, namely, Machir. And Machir became father to Galaad. But the sons of Ephraim, Manasseh’s brother, were Sutalaam and Taam. And the sons of Sutalaam were Edem.” This may explain why LXX, in Ge 46:27 and Ex 1:5, and Stephen, in Ac 7:14, count 75 souls instead of 70.
  4. ^ “Seventy,” MTSyVg; LXX, “seventy-five.”
  5. ^ “To Joseph, that he might make announcement to him,” Vg.
  6. ^ “To Joseph to meet him at Heroopolis in the land of Rameses,” LXX.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ge 21:31
  2. ^ Ge 31:42; Ex 3:6; Lu 20:37
  3. ^ Nu 12:6; Jb 33:15
  4. ^ 1Sa 3:4
  5. ^ Ge 5:22; 1Ki 18:21; 1Co 8:6
  6. ^ Ge 28:13; Mt 22:32
  7. ^ Ge 12:2; Ex 1:7; De 26:5; Ps 105:12; Ac 7:17
  8. ^ Ge 15:16; 28:15; 47:29; 50:13; Ex 3:8; Ps 105:37
  9. ^ Ge 50:1
  10. ^ Ge 45:19
  11. ^ Ge 31:18; 36:7
  12. ^ Nu 20:15; Ps 105:23; Is 52:4; Ac 7:15
  13. ^ Ex 1:1
  14. ^ Ge 35:23; 49:3; 1Ch 5:1
  15. ^ Ex 6:14; Nu 26:5
  16. ^ Ge 29:33
  17. ^ Nu 26:12
  18. ^ Ex 6:15; 1Ch 4:24
  19. ^ Ge 29:34; 1Ch 6:16
  20. ^ Ex 6:16; Nu 3:23
  21. ^ Ex 6:18; Nu 3:27; 1Ch 9:32
  22. ^ Nu 3:33; 1Ch 6:63
  23. ^ Ge 29:35; 49:10; Re 5:5
  24. ^ Ge 38:3
  25. ^ Ge 38:4
  26. ^ Ge 38:5
  27. ^ Ru 4:12; Lu 3:33
  28. ^ Ge 38:30
  29. ^ Ge 38:7, 10
  30. ^ Nu 26:21
  31. ^ 1Ch 2:5
  32. ^ Ge 49:14; Jos 19:17
  33. ^ Nu 26:23
  34. ^ 1Ch 7:1
  35. ^ Nu 26:24
  36. ^ Ge 30:20; 49:13
  37. ^ Nu 26:26
  38. ^ Ge 35:23
  39. ^ Ge 30:21
  40. ^ Ge 30:11; 49:19
  41. ^ Nu 26:15
  42. ^ Ge 30:13; 49:20; De 33:24
  43. ^ Nu 26:44
  44. ^ Nu 26:45
  45. ^ Ge 29:24; 35:26
  46. ^ Ge 29:18; 35:24
  47. ^ Ge 30:24; 49:22
  48. ^ Ge 35:18; 49:27
  49. ^ Ge 41:51; 48:14
  50. ^ Ge 41:52
  51. ^ Ge 41:50
  52. ^ Nu 26:38
  53. ^ 1Ch 7:6
  54. ^ 1Ch 8:3
  55. ^ Nu 26:40
  56. ^ Nu 26:39
  57. ^ 1Ch 7:12
  58. ^ Ge 30:6; 49:16
  59. ^ Nu 26:42
  60. ^ Ge 30:8; 49:21
  61. ^ Nu 26:48
  62. ^ Nu 26:49
  63. ^ Ge 29:29; 35:25
  64. ^ Ge 35:11
  65. ^ Ex 1:5; De 10:22; Ac 7:14
  66. ^ Ge 43:8; 44:18
  67. ^ Ge 45:10; 47:1
  68. ^ Ge 41:43
  69. ^ Ge 33:4; 45:14
  70. ^ Ge 45:28; Lu 2:29
  71. ^ Ge 41:40
  72. ^ Ge 45:19; 47:1; Ac 7:13
  73. ^ Ge 31:18; 47:3
  74. ^ Ge 31:38
  75. ^ Ge 46:6
  76. ^ Ge 30:35; 34:5
  77. ^ Ge 45:18; 47:27
  78. ^ Ge 43:32

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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