First Reading: Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30

¹ So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
² And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here am I.”
³ Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation.
⁴ I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again; and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.”
⁵ Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
⁶ They also took their cattle and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,
⁷ his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters; all his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.
²⁸ He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to appear before him in Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
²⁹ Then Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
³⁰ Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”