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Genesis 46:6-8
EasyEnglish Bible
Genesis 46:6-8
EasyEnglish Bible
6 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. 7 He took his sons and his grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters. He took all his family with him to Egypt.
8 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.
Footnotes
- 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.
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