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Genesis 45
²⁶ They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." But he was stunned, for he did not believe them.
²⁷ When they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
²⁸ Then Israel said, "It is enough; my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
Genesis 46
¹ So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
² God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."
³ He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.
⁴ I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes."
⁵ Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
⁶ They took their livestock and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him:
⁷ his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
⁸ Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.