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Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.

Issachar and his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.

Zebulun and his sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

These are the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides his daughter Dinah. In all, his descendants by Leah numbered thirty-three.

Gad and his sons: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arod, and Areli.

Asher and his sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel.

These sixteen are the descendants of Jacob by Zilpah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah.

Dan and his son Hushim.

Naphtali and his sons: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

These seven are the descendants of Jacob by Bilhah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel.

The total number of the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt was sixty-six, not including his sons' wives.

Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms around his father's neck and cried for a long time.

Then Joseph said to his brothers and the rest of his father's family, "I must go and tell the king that my brothers and all my father's family, who were living in Canaan, have come to me.

So Joseph took five of his brothers and went to the king. He told him, "My father and my brothers have come from Canaan with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own. They are now in the region of Goshen."

He then presented his brothers to the king.

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to the king. Jacob gave the king his blessing,

Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt, giving them property in the best of the land near the city of Rameses, as the king had commanded.

Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father's family, including the very youngest.

Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for the king. Every Egyptian was forced to sell his land, because the famine was so severe; and all the land became the king's property.

When the time drew near for him to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, "Place your hand between my thighs and make a solemn vow that you will not bury me in Egypt.