In the beginning מו

1and Israel has journeyed with all that which he has have had, and is having come to Be'er-Sheva, and he has slaughtered slaughter sacrifice/zavach to the G-d of his father Yitzchak.

2and G-d has spoken to Yisroel in vision of the night, and has said: Yaakov, Yaakov! has he said: here am I.

3has he said: I am the G-d the G-d of your father, you(SG) must not fear have go down to to Egypt, because for a great people will I you there make.

4I will go down with you(SG) to Egypt, and also surely bring up will I you bring up. and Yosef will put his hand on your eyes.

5and Yaakov is got up from Be'er-Sheva, and the children of Israel have guided their father Yaakov, and their small children, and their wives, on the wagons which Pharaoh has sent him to lead.

6and they have taken their livestock, and their possessions which they have accumulated in land Canaan, and they are having come to Egypt, Yaakov and all his children with him;

7his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his children, has he brought with self to Egypt.

8and this are the names of the children of Israel which are having come to Egypt, Yaakov and his children: Yaakov's firstborn Reuven.

9and the sons of Reuven: Chanokh, and Pallu, and Chetzron, and Carmi.

10and the sons of Shim'on: Yemuel, and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yachin, and Tzochar, and Sha'ul the son of a Kena'ani.

11and the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohat, and Merari.

12and the sons of Yehudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Peretz, and Zerach; and Er and Onan are died in land Canaan. and the sons of Peretz are having been Chetzron and Chamul.

13and the sons of Yissakhar: Tola, and Puvah, and Yov, and Shimron.

14and the sons of Zevulun: Sered, and Elon, and Yachle'el.

15these are the sons of Leah, whom she has given birth to Yaakov in Paddanah-Aram; in addition his daughter Dinah; all persons of his sons and his daughters, three and thirty.

16and the sons of Gad are having been Tziphyon, and Chaggi, Shuni, and Etzbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

17and the children of Asher: Yimnah, and Yishvah, and Yishvi, and Beri'ah, and their sister Serach; and the sons of Beri'ah: Chever and Malki'el.

18this are the sons of Zilpah, which Lavan has given his daughter Leah, and the this has she given birth to Yaakov – sixteen persons.

19the sons of Yaakov's wife Rachel are having been Yosef and Binyamin.

20and by Yosef are given birth to having become in land Egypt Menasheh and Ephrayim, which Asenat the daughter of Poti Phera the priest of On has him given birth to.

21and the sons of Binyamin are having been Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Na'aman, Echi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Chuppim, and Ard.

22this are the sons of Rachel, which are given birth to having become by Yaakov: all persons, fourteen.

23and the sons of Dan: Chushim.

24and the sons of Naphtali: Yachtze'el, and Guni, and Yetzer, and Shillem.

25this are the sons of Bilhah, which Lavan has given his daughter Rachel, and the ones this have she given birth to Yaakov; all persons, seven.

26all persons of Yaakov which are having come to Egypt, the which are having come out of his thigh/hip, aside from the wives of Yaakov's sons – all persons are having been six and sixty.

27and Yosef's sons, who are him given birth to having become in Egypt, are having been two persons. all persons of Yaakov's household who are having come to Egypt, seventy.

28and Yehudah has he sent ahead of before self to Yosef, to show him ahead of the way to Goshen; and they are arrived to land Goshen.

29and Yosef has harnessed his chariot, and is gone up to meet his father Yisroel at Goshen. and as he has self appeared before him, so is he him fell on neck, and he has long wept on his neck.

30and Yisroel has said to Yosef: now can I die, after as I have seen your face, that you (sg) live still.

31and Yosef has said to his brothers and to his father's household: I will go up and will tell Pharaoh, and I will him say: my brothers and my father's household, which are having been in land Canaan, are having come to me.

32and the men are shepherds of sheep, because they are men of livestock; and their sheep and their head of cattle and all that which they have, have they brought with.

33and it will be, when Pharaoh will you (PL) call/summons, and will say: what is your doing/occupation?

34shall you (PL) say: men of livestock are your servants from our youth on and till now, so we, so our fathers; so that you (PL) shall sit/dwell in land Goshen, because an abomination by the Egypt is every shepherd of sheep.

English word for word translation of Orthodox Yiddish Torah (OYTORAH) © Artists for Israel International, 2024
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