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Genesis 46:6

in Genesis 46

They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

KJV

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

This verse in Genesis 46

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Jacob departed from Beersheba

on Genesis 46:5-6

They go down in the wagons Pharaoh sent, with their children and their wives, and take the livestock and possessions they had acquired in Canaan. The land stays behind them, and they carry out only what they had gathered in it. Jacob and all his offspring go into Egypt together.

This site's exposition

They also took the livestock

Pharaoh had told them at 45:20 to pay no regard to their goods, and they brought the herds anyway. The flocks were their trade, and at 46:32 Joseph presents them to Pharaoh as shepherds with their livestock. The animals earn them Goshen.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan,....

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּקְח֣וּand they took

    vaiyikchuH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מִקְנֵיהֶ֗םlivestock their

    mikneihemH4735 →76 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • רְכוּשָׁם֙possession[s] their

    rekhushamH7399 →28 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • רָֽכְשׁוּ֙they had accumulated

    rakheshuH7408 →5 times

  • בְּאֶ֣רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • כְּנַ֔עַןCanaan

    kenaanH3667 →94 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֖אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • מִצְרָ֑יְמָהEgypt towards

    mitzrayemahH4714 →641 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֖בJacob

    yaakoH3290 →350 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • זַרְע֥וֹoffspring his

    zaroH2233 →229 times

  • אִתּֽוֹ׃with him

    ʾitoH854 →929 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 26:5

    and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 10:22

      Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 46:27

      And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

    • Genesis 43:1–2

      Now the famine was still severe in the land.

    • Genesis 31:20

      Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

    • Genesis 31:24

      But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

  • Through

    Psalms 105:23

    Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

    it leads to

    • Acts 13:17

      The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

    • Acts 7:11–15

      Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

  • Through

    Acts 7:15

    So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 49:33

      When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.