Jubilees 44:1-34

¹Israel set out on his journey from Haran, from his house, on the new moon of the third month, and he traveled on the road to the Well of the Oath, and he offered a sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac on the seventh of this month.

²And Jacob remembered the dream that he had seen at Bethel, and he was afraid to go down into Egypt. And while he was thinking of sending word to Joseph to come to him, and that he himself would not go down, he remained there seven days, in case he might see a vision as to whether he should remain or go down.

³And he celebrated the harvest festival of the first-fruits with old grain, for in all the land of Canaan there was not a handful of seed in the land, since the famine was over all the beasts and cattle and birds, and also over humankind.

⁴And on the sixteenth the Lord appeared to him and said to him, 'Jacob, Jacob'; and he said, 'Here I am.' And He said to him: 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac; do not be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. I will go down with you, and I will bring you up again, and in this land you shall be buried, and Joseph shall put his hands upon your eyes. Do not be afraid; go down into Egypt.'

⁵And his sons rose up, and his sons' sons, and they placed their father and their possessions upon wagons.

⁶And Israel rose up from the Well of the Oath on the sixteenth of this third month, and he went to the land of Egypt.

⁷And Israel sent Judah ahead of him to his son Joseph to examine the land of Goshen, for Joseph had told his brothers that they should come and dwell there so that they might be near him.

⁸And this was the finest land in the land of Egypt, and near to him, suitable for all of them and also for the cattle.

⁹And these are the names of the sons of Jacob who went into Egypt with Jacob their father.

¹⁰Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; and these are the names of his sons: Enoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi—five.

¹¹Simeon and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of the Zephathite woman—seven.

¹²Levi and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari—four.

¹³Judah and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Shela, and Perez, and Zerah—four.

¹⁴Issachar and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Tola, and Phua, and Jasub, and Shimron—five.

¹⁵Zebulon and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel—four.

¹⁶And these are the sons of Jacob and their sons whom Leah bore to Jacob in Mesopotamia, six, along with their one sister, Dinah. And all the souls of the sons of Leah, and their sons, who went with Jacob their father into Egypt, were twenty-nine; and with Jacob their father being among them, they were thirty.

¹⁷And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, the wife of Jacob, who bore to Jacob Gad and Asher.

¹⁸And these are the names of their sons who went with him into Egypt. The sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, and Shuni, and Ezbon, and Eri, and Areli, and Arodi—eight.

¹⁹And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah, their one sister—six.

²⁰All the souls were fourteen, and all those of Leah were forty-four.

²¹And the sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

²²And there were born to Joseph in Egypt before his father came into Egypt those whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphar priest of Heliopolis, bore to him: Manasseh and Ephraim—three.

²³And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, and Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard—eleven.

²⁴And all the souls of Rachel were fourteen.

²⁵And the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel, the wife of Jacob, whom she bore to Jacob, were Dan and Naphtali.

²⁶And these are the names of their sons who went with them into Egypt. And the sons of Dan were Hushim, and Samon, and Asudi, and Ijaka, and Salomon—six.

²⁷And they died in the year in which they entered into Egypt, and there was left to Dan only Hushim alone.

²⁸And these are the names of the sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, and Iv.

²⁹And Iv, who was born after the years of famine, died in Egypt.

³⁰And all the souls of Rachel were twenty-six.

³¹And all the souls of Jacob that went into Egypt were seventy souls. These are his children and his children's children, in all seventy; but five died in Egypt before Joseph, and had no children.

³²And in the land of Canaan two sons of Judah died, Er and Onan, and they had no children, and the children of Israel buried those who perished, and they were reckoned among the seventy Gentile nations.

³³And all the souls of Jacob that went into Egypt were seventy souls. These are his children and his children's children, in all seventy; but five died in Egypt before Joseph, and had no children.

³⁴And in the land of Canaan two sons of Judah died, Er and Onan, and they had no children, and the children of Israel buried those who perished, and they were reckoned among the seventy Gentile nations.