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# Genesis 46

Genesis 46 is chapter 46 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 34 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Israel, warranted by a vision from God, goeth down into Egypt with all his family.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 46 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And Israel, setting out with all that he had, arrived at the Well of the Oath. And sacrificing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,
2. he heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: “Jacob, Jacob.” And he answered him, “Behold, here I am.”
3. God said to him: “I am the most strong God of your father. Do not be afraid. Descend into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
4. I will descend with you to that place, and I will lead you back from there, returning. Also, Joseph will place his hands over your eyes.
5. Then Jacob rose up from the Well of the Oath. And his sons took him, with their little ones and wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry the old man,
6. along with all that he possessed in the land of Canaan. And he arrived in Egypt with all his offspring:
7. his sons and his grandsons, his daughters and all his progeny together.
8. Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who entered into Egypt, he with his children. The firstborn is Reuben.
9. The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu, and Hezron and Carmi.
10. The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad, and Jachin and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
11. The sons of Levi: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari.
12. The sons of Judah: Er and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez and Zerah. Now Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And sons were born to Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
13. The sons of Issachar: Tola and Puvah, and Job and Shimron.
14. The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
15. These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore, along with his daughter Dinah, in Mesopotamia of Syria. All the souls of her sons and daughters are thirty-three.
16. The sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, and Shuni and Ezbon, and Eri and Arodi, and Areli.
17. The sons of Asher: Imnah and Jesua, and Jessui and Beriah, and also their sister Sarah. The sons of Beria: Heber and Malchiel.
18. These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. And these she bore to Jacob: sixteen souls.
19. The sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.
20. And sons were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore for him: Manasseh and Ephraim.
21. The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher, and Ashbel and Gera, and Naaman and Ehi, and Rosh and Moppim, and Huppim and Ard.
22. These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all these souls are fourteen.
23. The sons of Dan: Hushim.
24. The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni, and Jezer and Shillem.
25. These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and these she bore to Jacob: all these souls are seven.
26. All the souls who went into Egypt with Jacob and who went out from his thigh, besides the wives of his sons, were sixty-six.
27. Now the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in the land of Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who went into Egypt, were seventy.
28. Then he sent Judah ahead of himself, to Joseph, in order to report to him, and so that he would meet him in Goshen.
29. And when he had arrived there, Joseph harnessed his chariot, and he went up to meet his father at the same place. And seeing him, he fell upon his neck, and, amid embraces, he wept.
30. And the father said to Joseph, “Now I will die happy, because I have seen your face, and I am leaving you behind alive.”
31. And he said to his brothers and to all his father’s house: “I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him: ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
32. And these honorable men are pastors of sheep, and they have the task of feeding the flock. Their cattle, and herds, and all that they were able to hold, they have brought with them.’
33. And when he will call you and will say, ‘What is your work?’
34. You will respond, ‘Your servants are pastors of honor, from our infancy even to the present time, both we and our fathers.’ Now you will say this so that you may be able to live in the land of Goshen, because the Egyptians detest all pastors of sheep.”

## Genesis 46 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Profectusque Israël cum omnibus quæ habebat, venit ad Puteum juramenti: et mactatis ibi victimis Deo patris sui Isaac,
2. audivit eum per visionem noctis vocantem se, et dicentem sibi: Jacob, Jacob. Cui respondit: Ecce adsum.
3. Ait illi Deus: Ego sum fortissimus Deus patris tui: noli timere, descende in Ægyptum, quia in gentem magnam faciam te ibi.
4. Ego descendam tecum illuc, et ego inde adducam te revertentem: Joseph quoque ponet manus suas super oculos tuos.
5. Surrexit autem Jacob a Puteo juramenti: tuleruntque eum filii cum parvulis et uxoribus suis in plaustris quæ miserat Pharao ad portandum senem,
6. et omnia quæ possederat in terra Chanaan: venitque in Ægyptum cum omni semine suo,
7. filii ejus, et nepotes, filiæ, et cuncta simul progenies.
8. Hæc sunt autem nomina filiorum Israël, qui ingressi sunt in Ægyptum, ipse cum liberis suis. Primogenitus Ruben.
9. Filii Ruben: Henoch et Phallu et Hesron et Charmi.
10. Filii Simeon: Jamuel et Jamin et Ahod, et Jachin et Sohar, et Saul filius Chanaanitidis.
11. Filii Levi: Gerson et Caath et Merari.
12. Filii Juda: Her et Onan et Sela et Phares et Zara; mortui sunt autem Her et Onan in terra Chanaan. Natique sunt filii Phares: Hesron et Hamul.
13. Filii Issachar: Thola et Phua et Job et Semron.
14. Filii Zabulon: Sared et Elon et Jahelel.
15. Hi filii Liæ quos genuit in Mesopotamia Syriæ cum Dina filia sua: omnes animæ filiorum ejus et filiarum, triginta tres.
16. Filii Gad: Sephion et Haggi et Suni et Esebon et Heri et Arodi et Areli.
17. Filii Aser: Jamne et Jesua et Jessui et Beria, Sara quoque soror eorum. Filii Beria: Heber et Melchiel.
18. Hi filii Zelphæ, quam dedit Laban Liæ filiæ suæ: et hos genuit Jacob sedecim animas.
19. Filii Rachel uxoris Jacob: Joseph et Benjamin.
20. Natique sunt Joseph filii in terra Ægypti, quos genuit ei Aseneth filia Putiphare sacerdotis Heliopoleos: Manasses et Ephraim.
21. Filii Benjamin: Bela et Bechor et Asbel et Gera et Naaman et Echi et Ros et Mophim et Ophim et Ared.
22. Hi filii Rachel quos genuit Jacob: omnes animæ, quatuordecim.
23. Filii Dan: Husim.
24. Filii Nephthali: Jasiel et Guni et Jeser et Sallem.
25. Hi filii Balæ, quam dedit Laban Racheli filiæ suæ: et hos genuit Jacob: omnes animæ, septem.
26. Cunctæ animæ, quæ ingressæ sunt cum Jacob in Ægyptum, et egressæ sunt de femore illius, absque uxoribus filiorum ejus, sexaginta sex.
27. Filii autem Joseph, qui nati sunt ei in terra Ægypti, animæ duæ. Omnes animæ domus Jacob, quæ ingressæ sunt in Ægyptum, fuere septuaginta.
28. Misit autem Judam ante se ad Joseph, ut nuntiaret ei, et occurreret in Gessen.
29. Quo cum pervenisset, juncto Joseph curro suo, ascendit obviam patri suo ad eumdem locum: vidensque eum, irruit super collum ejus, et inter amplexus flevit.
30. Dixitque pater ad Joseph: Jam lætus moriar, quia vidi faciem tuam, et superstitem te relinquo.
31. At ille locutus est ad fratres suos, et ad omnem domum patris sui: Ascendam, et nuntiabo Pharaoni, dicamque ei: Fratres mei, et domus patris mei, qui erant in terra Chanaan, venerunt ad me:
32. et sunt viri pastores ovium, curamque habent alendorum gregum: pecora sua, et armenta, et omnia quæ habere potuerunt, adduxerunt secum.
33. Cumque vocaverit vos, et dixerit: Quod est opus vestrum?
34. respondebitis: Viri pastores sumus servi tui, ab infantia nostra usque in præsens, et nos et patres nostri. Hæc autem dicetis, ut habitare possitis in terra Gessen: quia detestantur Ægyptii omnes pastores ovium.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: “The well of the oath” … Bersabee.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Jul 9, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).