Genesis 46:1-34 talk about how Jacob and his family go Egypt to reunite with Joseph. God reassure him with blessings for his descendants.
1. Na so Israel (Jacob) take pack all di things wey e get, come travel go Beersheba. There, e give sacrifice to di God of e papa, Isaac.
2. That night, God talk to Israel for dream, "Jacob! Jacob!" E answer, "I dey here."
3. God tell am, "I be God, di God of your papa. Make you no fear to go Egypt, because na there I go make your family plenty well-well."
4. "I go follow you go Egypt, and na me go bring you come back. Joseph go use e hand close your eye when you die."
5. Jacob wake up from Beersheba, and e pikin dem carry am, e pikin dem pikin, and e wives for di cart wey Pharaoh send.
6. Dem carry all di animals and property wey dem get for Canaan, come enter Egypt.
7. Na so Jacob carry all e family, di sons, di daughters, and di grandpikin dem enter Egypt.
8. This na di names of Jacob pikin dem wey go Egypt: Reuben, di firstborn.
9. Reuben children na Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
10. Simeon children na Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul wey be pikin of one Canaanite woman.
11. Levi children na Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12. Judah children na Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. But Er and Onan die for Canaan. Perez children na Hezron and Hamul.
13. Issachar children na Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.
14. Zebulun children na Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
15. This na di pikin dem wey Leah born for Jacob for Padan-Aram, plus e daughter Dinah. All di pikin dem and grandpikin dem be 33.
16. Gad children na Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
17. Asher children na Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and e sister Serah. Beriah children na Heber and Malchiel.
18. This na di pikin dem wey Zilpah, wey Laban give Leah, born for Jacob. Dem be 16.
19. Rachel children for Jacob na Joseph and Benjamin.
20. For Egypt, Asenath, di daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, born Manasseh and Ephraim for Joseph.
21. Benjamin children na Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
22. This na di pikin dem wey Rachel born for Jacob. All of dem be 14.
23. Dan pikin na Hushim.
24. Naphtali children na Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
25. This na di pikin dem wey Bilhah, wey Laban give Rachel, born for Jacob. Dem be 7.
26. All di pikin dem and grandpikin dem wey come from Jacob body wey enter Egypt be 66 (this one no count di wives of e pikin dem).
27. Plus di two pikin wey Joseph born for Egypt, all di people wey come from Jacob house wey enter Egypt be 70.
28. Jacob send Judah go meet Joseph first, so dat Joseph go show dem di road to Goshen. When dem reach Goshen,
29. Joseph carry e chariot go meet e papa Israel for Goshen. When e see am, e hug am well-well, come cry for e neck.
30. Israel tell Joseph, "Now I fit die, because I don see you and I know say you still dey alive."
31. Joseph tell e brothers and e papa house people say, "I go go tell Pharaoh say, 'My papa and my brothers don come from Canaan.'"
32. "Dem be shepherds, dem dey rear animals, and dem carry all di flocks, cattle, and property wey dem get come."
33. "When Pharaoh ask una say, 'Wetin be una work?'"
34. "Make una tell am say, 'Since our papa time, we don dey rear animals.' If una talk like dat, Pharaoh go allow una stay for Goshen, because Egyptians no like people wey dey rear animals."
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