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And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

46:4 upon thine eyes. That is, Jacob would be with his beloved Joseph at his death, and Joseph then would lovingly close his father’s eyes as he died.


46:5 from Beersheba. This was the southern boundary of Jacob’s homeland, so he passed by to sacrifice and pray there before his permanent departure for Egypt. God appeared to him one last time, assuring him this move was in the will of God.


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