Jubilees

And Israel began his journey from Haran, his house, on the new moon of the third month, and he went on the way of the Well of the Oath,

and he offered a sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac on the seventh day of this month.

And Jacob remembered the dream which he had dreamed in Bethel, and he feared to go down to Egypt. And while he was thinking to send a word to Joseph to come to him, and that he would not go down, he remained there seven days, in case he would have a vision as to whether he should remain or go down.

And he celebrated the festival of the harvest of the first fruits with old grain, because in all the land of Canaan there was not even a handful of seed, because the famine was upon all the wild animals, cattle and birds, and also upon men.

And on the sixteenth day 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 fear to go down to Egypt, because I will make you there become a great nation.

I will go down with you, and I will bring you up, and in this land you shall be buried, and Joseph shall put his hands upon your eyes. Fear not. Go down to Egypt!"

And his sons arose, and his grandsons, and they put their father and their possessions in wagons.

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

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

And this was the best in the land of Egypt, and near him, for all and also for the cattle.

And these are the names of the sons of Jacob who went to Egypt with Jacob their father:

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

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

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

Judah and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Shelah, Perez, Zerah. Four.

Issachar and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron. Five.

Zebulun and his sons; and these were the names of his sons: Sered, Elon, Jahleel. Four.

And these are the sons of Jacob and their sons whom Leah bore to Jacob in Mesopotamia, six and their only sister Dinah, and all the lives of the sons of Leah and their sons who went with Jacob, their father, to Egypt were twenty-nine, and Jacob their father with them were thirty.

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

And these were the names of their sons who went with him to Egypt. The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi. Eight.

And the sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Beriah and Serah their only sister. Six.

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

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

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

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

And the sons of Rachel were fourteen.

And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, wife of Jacob, whom she bore to Jacob, were Dan and Naphtali.

And these are the names of their sons who went with them to Egypt. And the sons of Dan were: Hushim, Samon, Asudi, Ijara and Salomon. Six.

And they died in the year that they entered Egypt, and only Hushim remained for Dan.

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

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

And the lives of Rachel were twenty-six.

And all the lives of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy lives. These are his sons and their grandsons, in all seventy, but five died in Egypt before Joseph, and had no children.

And 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 counted among the seventy persons.