^{1 Ref} And 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.

^{2 Ref} And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

^{3 Ref} And 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:

^{4 Ref} I 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.

^{5 Ref} Then 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.

^{6 Ref} And 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:

⁷ His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.