1 Jacob packed up all he had and went to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 God spoke to him in a vision at night and called, “Jacob, Jacob!”“Yes, here I am,” he answered.
3 “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go to Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there.
4 I will go with you to Egypt, and I will bring your descendants back to this land. Joseph will be with you when you die.”
5 Jacob set out from Beersheba. His sons put him, their small children, and their wives in the wagons which the king of Egypt had sent.
6 They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him:
7 his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters.