Scripture Readings

Thursday, April 9, 1998

Genesis 46:1-7 (Vespers, 1st reading)

1
So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2
Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” And he said, “Here I am.”
3
So He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.
4
“I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.”
5
Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6
So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.
7
His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.