Reading I
Gen 46:1-7, 28-30
And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,
He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.
God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.
I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.
And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent to carry the old man,
And all that he had in the land of Chanaan: and he came into Egypt with all his seed;
His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all his offspring together.
And he sent Juda before him to Joseph, to tell him; and that he should meet him in Gessen.
And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet his father in the same place: and seeing him, he fell upon his neck, and embracing him, wept.
And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, because I have seen thy face, and leave thee alive.
