Genesis 46:1

And Israel journeyed, and all that he had, and came to Beer Shava; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Izhak.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

In Context

2And the Lord spake to Israel in a vision of the night, and said, Jakob, Jakob. And he said, Behold, I am.

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Cross References

Genesis 8:20And Noach builded an altar before the Lord, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and uplifted an offering upon the altar.

Genesis 21:14And Abraham rose up in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave to Hagar, setting upon her shoulder, and the youth, and dismissed her. And she went, and wandered in the desert of the well of Shava ( Beara de Shava).

Genesis 21:33And he planted a tree in Beer Shava, and prayed there in the name of the Lord, the Most High God.

Genesis 26:22And he went up from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Spaciousness. For he said, Because now hath the Lord enlarged us, and we shall spread abroad in the land.

Genesis 28:13and, behold, the Glory of the Lord stood above it, and He said, I am the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak. The land where thou sleepest, unto thee will I give it, and unto thy sons.

Genesis 31:53The God of Abraham and the God of Nachor shall judge between us, the God of their fathers. And Jakob sware by Him whom Izhak his father feared.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 46:1

Jacob is here removing to Egypt in his old age, forced thither by a famine, and invited thither by a son. Here, I. God sends him thither, ver. 1-4 . II. All his family goes with him, ver. 5-27 . III. Joseph bids him welcome, ver. 28-34 . Read the whole commentary →

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