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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB Migration to Egypt. 1* Israel
set out with all that was his. When he arrived at Beer-sheba, he
offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2There God,
speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called: Jacob! Jacob!
He answered, “Here I am.” 3Then he said: I am God,* the God of
your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I
will make you a great nation. 4I will go down to Egypt with you
and I will also bring you back here, after Joseph has closed
your eyes. 5So Jacob departed from Beer-sheba, and the sons of
Israel put their father and their wives and children on the
wagons that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. 6They took with
them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in
the land of Canaan. So Jacob and all his descendants came to
Egypt.a 7His sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his
granddaughters—all his descendants—he took with him to Egypt.
Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn