Neville Goddard on Genesis 46:8-27 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 46 in context

Scripture Focus

8And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

9And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

10And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

11And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

13And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

14And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

16And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

17And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

20And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

21And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

22These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

23And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

24And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

25These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

26All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

27And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

Genesis 46:8-27

Biblical Context

Jacob and his sons enter Egypt; the list names the sons and their tribes, totaling seventy souls.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this list, the names are not merely people but states of consciousness that live in the mind. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, and the others are the early faculties that carry desire, memory, and judgment into your waking life. The journey into Egypt is the movement of awareness into form—your internal weather becoming outward circumstance. Each line is a moment you have allowed into your inner room: Er and Onan's fate hints that some impulses, when misaligned with I AM, seek resolution; Pharez and Zarah signal the birth of new possibilities born from the tension of choice. The total seventy signifies a complete, living kingdom within you, a lineage you govern with imagination. By attending to these inner states as real, you revise your sense of self to reflect your divinely ordained lineage. As you dwell in the I AM, these names rearrange, and your external life begins to mirror the order you hold inwardly.

Practice This Now

Identify seven inner states you wish to foster; in a quiet moment, visualize them as living aspects of your consciousness entering your life, then declare the I AM as their source and feel them real.