Chapter Overview
Jacob (No, Israel, really) makes the journey down to Egypt with his sons and we get the genealogy of Jacob.
Additional Thoughts
I’m not even through one book of the bible, and the misogyny has been rubbing me the wrong way the entire time. The thoughts and morals expressed in this book are rooted in Iron age thinking and understanding and are certainly not all applicable to society today. Previous chapters saw women being shuttled around without any regard to what they wanted, women clearly have no rights, and women aren’t even included in the genealogy (except in one instance to force the total kids to 7).
Beyond that… not much to see in this chapter here beyond a lie about Egyptians believing shepherding was an abomination. Egyptians had their own shepherds.
Chapter 46: Jacob’s Journey to the South
- And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
- And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
- And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
- I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
- And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
- And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
- His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
- And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
- And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
- And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
- And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
- And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
- And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
- These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
- And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
- And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
- These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
- The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
- And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
- And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
- These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
- And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
- And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
- These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
- All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;
- And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
- And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
- And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
- And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
- And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
- And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
- And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
- That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
- Time to get travelling and making sacrifices again.
- Even god can’t seem to keep Jacob’s… er Israel’s (No no, Jacob actually…) name straight.
- This is sounding quite like every other time that god shows up to a person. He really like founding nations.
- Uh…. no. Jacob dies in Egypt, he’s never brought back out.
- I’m still not sure why the wagons were sent in the first place.
- Weren’t they told to leave everything behind last chapter?
- AKA: Everyone came with him.
- Oh no… not another one of these…. Why are there so many genealogies? 1 Direct son.
- That son had 4 sons (but how many daughters? We’ll never know)
- 1 Direct son, that son had 6 sons. Why is one specified to be from another woman? Probably to make this 7 (6 + 1)
- 1 direct son with 3 sons.
- 1 son who has 5 sons, and 1 son with 2 sons. Oh look… we have a 7 again. These authors are REALLY forcing 7’s in where they can.
- 1 son with 4 sons
- 1 son with 3 sons
- Aight… not sure why you care how many were there.
- 1 son with 7 sons
- 1 son with 4 sons and 1 daughter, 1 son with 2 sons. Why is the daughter mentioned here an no others? To make the kids total 7
- The total for the sons so far is 16. Note that they ignore the daughter again.
- 2 sons
- Joseph had 2 sons
- benjamin had 10 sons
- Why don’t they go more generations? Or less? This is all contrived.
- 1 son with 1 son
- 1 son with 4 sons
- The sons above with their sons total 7.
- Total sons + that random daughter: 71.
Total – Joseph and his kids: 67
Total – the random daughter from verse 17: 66. This is misogynistic. - Total Sons + random daughter: 71
Threescore and 10: 70
What a bunch of assholes. I know it was common at the time, but I hate them now. - Judah goes and gets a map.
- Everyone has a good cry.
- And Jacob… er Israel… wants to die now.
- He wants to show off his family to Pharaoh. Cool idea. Any records of this visit? No? Oh… no reason… just asking….
- They have a trade
- Here’s what you sy when he asks you your trade.
- No. shepherds were not abominations. Egyptians actually had their own shepherding of sheep they did. Welcome to yet another false claim from the bible. What a surprise.