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They also took all their animals and everything that they had got in Canaan. In that way, Jacob and all his family went to Egypt. He took his sons and his grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters. He took all his family with him to Egypt.

These are the names of the descendants of Israel[a] who went to Egypt, (that is, the sons of Jacob):

Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob.

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  1. 46:8 Israel is the new name that God gave to Jacob. We call the descendants of Jacob ‘Israelites.’ Jacob's 12 sons became the ancestors of the 12 tribes of Israel.