So Jacob set out from Beer-sheba. The sons of Israel put their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to transport him;
and they took along their livestock and the wealth that they had amassed in the land of Canaan. Thus Jacob and all his offspring with him came to Egypt:
he brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters daughters (So trad.) The plural is part of a standard formula; cf. vv. 15, 23; Num. 26.8; 1 Chron. 2.8. and granddaughters—all his offspring.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בניו
68
ובני
68
בניו
68
אתו
407
בנתיו
468
ובנות
464
בניו
68
וכלזרעו
339
הביא
18
אתו
407
מצרימהס
445
Genesis 46:8
Gematria: 2753
ואלהשמותבניישראלהבאיםמצרימהיעקבובניובכריעקבראובן
These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his descendants, who came to Egypt. Jacob’s first-born Reuben;
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואלה
42
שמות
746
בניישראל
603
הבאים
58
מצרימה
385
יעקב
182
ובניו
74
בכר
222
יעקב
182
ראובן
259
Genesis 46:9
Gematria: 1164
ובניראובןחנוךופלואוחצרןוכרמי
Reuben’s sons: Enoch, Enoch Or “Hanoch.” Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובני
68
ראובן
259
חנוך
84
ופלוא
123
וחצרן
354
וכרמי
276
Genesis 46:10
Gematria: 2153
ובנישמעוןימואלוימיןואהדויכיןוצחרושאולבןהכנענית
Simeon’s sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Saul Saul Or “Shaul.” the son of a Canaanite woman.
Those were the sons whom Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. Persons in all, male and female: 33. 33 Including Jacob.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אלה
36
בני
62
לאה
36
אשר
501
ילדה
49
ליעקב
212
בפדן
136
ארם
241
ואת
407
דינה
69
בתו
408
כלנפש
480
בניו
68
ובנותיו
480
שלשים
680
ושלש
636
Genesis 46:16
Gematria: 1608
ובניגדצפיוןוחגישוניואצבןעריוארודיואראלי
Gad’s sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt who came to Egypt Not including Joseph and Joseph’s two sons. —his own issue, aside from the wives of Jacob’s sons—all these persons numbered 66.
And Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt were two in number. Thus the total of Jacob’s household who came to Egypt was seventy persons. seventy persons Including Jacob and Joseph.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובני
68
יוסף
156
אשרילדלו
581
במצרים
382
נפש
430
שנים
400
כלהנפש
485
לביתיעקב
624
הבאה
13
מצרימה
385
שבעיםס
482
Genesis 46:28
Gematria: 2987
ואתיהודהשלחלפניואליוסףלהורתלפניוגשנהויבאוארצהגשן
He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to point the way before him to Goshen. So when they came to the region of Goshen,
Joseph ordered ” his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel; he presented himself to him and, embracing him around the neck, he wept on his neck a good while.
Translation Notes
*ordered — Lit. “hitched.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאסר
277
יוסף
156
מרכבתו
668
ויעל
116
לקראתישראל
1272
אביו
19
גשנה
358
וירא
217
אליו
47
ויפל
126
עלצואריו
413
ויבך
38
עלצואריו
413
עוד
80
Genesis 46:30
Gematria: 3177
ויאמרישראלאליוסףאמותההפעםאחריראותיאתפניךכיעודךחי
Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now I can die, having seen for myself that you are still alive.”
Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
They happen to be shepherds; they have always been breeders of livestock, and they have brought with them their flocks and herds and all that is theirs.’
Word-by-Word Analysis
והאנשים
412
רעי
280
צאן
141
כיאנשי
391
מקנה
195
היו
21
וצאנם
187
ובקרם
348
וכלאשר
557
להם
75
הביאו
24
Genesis 46:33
Gematria: 1584
והיהכייקראלכםפרעהואמרמהמעשיכם
So when Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’
you shall answer, ‘Your servants have been breeders of livestock from the start until now, both we and our fathers’—so that you may stay in the region of Goshen. For all shepherds are abhorrent to Egyptians.”