When Jacob heard this he awoke as a man had been awaked suddenly out of his sleep, yet nevertheless he believed them not, and they told to him all the order of the matter.  When he saw the carriage and all that he had sent, his spirit revived and said:  It sufficeth to me if Joseph my son yet live, I shall go and see him ere I die.  Then Israel went forth with all that he had and came to the pit where tofore he had sworn to God; and slew there beasts to make sacrifices to the God of Isaac his father.  He heard God by a vision that same night saying to him:  Jacob, Jacob, to whom he answered:  I am here all ready.  God said to him:  I am strongest God of thy father Isaac, dread thee not, but descend down into Egypt.  I shall make thee to grow there into great people.  I shall descend with thee thither, and I shall bring thee again when thou returnest.  Joseph soothly shall put his hands upon thine eyes.  Jacob then arose on the morn early, and his sons took him with their children and wives and set them on the carriages that Pharaoh had sent to bring him and all that he had into the land of Canaan.  And so came into Egypt with all his progeny, sons and children, etc.

These be the names of the sons of Israel that entered with him into Egypt.  The first begotten Reuben with his children four.  Simeon with his seven sons.  Levi with his three sons.  Judah and his sons three.  Issachar and his four sons.  Zebulon and his sons three.  These were sons of Leah that Jacob gat in Mesopotamia, and Dinah his daughter.  All these sons and daughters were thirty-three.  Gad also entered with his children seven.  Asher with his children five and of his children’s children two.  These were sons of Zilpah, in number sixteen.  The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.  Joseph had two sons in the land of Egypt by his wife Asenath, Manasseh and Ephraim.  The sons of Benjamin were ten.  All these children that came of Rachel were in number fourteen.  Dan entered with one son, and Naphtali with four sons.  These were the children of Bilhah; they were in number seven.  All the souls that were issued of his seed that entered into Egypt with him, without the wives of his sons, were sixty-six.  The sons of Joseph that were born in Egypt twain.  Summa of all the souls of the house of Jacob that entered into Egypt were in all seventy.

Jacob sent them tofore him Judah unto Joseph, to show to him his coming.  And he came to Joseph in Goshen, and anon Joseph ascended his chariot and went for to meet his father, and when he saw him, he embraced him meekly and wept.  And his father received him joyously and embraced also him.  Then said the father to Joseph:  Now shall I die joyously because I have seen thy visage.  Then said Joseph to his brethren and to all the house of his father:  I shall go and ascend to Pharaoh and shall say to him, that my brethren and the house of my father that were in the land of Canaan be come to me, and be men keeping sheep, and can the manner well for to keep