Genesis 46

“So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.”

This verse didn’t jump out to me in a profound way, but I did wonder why he stopped in Beersheba to offer a sacrifice. In my searching I found this:

Beersheba was also where his father and grandfather had offered sacrifices to God in the past. Though Jacob was convinced of Joseph being alive, he must have had second thoughts of going to Egypt. He would call up to mind the boding prophecy in Genesis 15:13, that the descendants of Abraham were to be reduced to slavery, and suffer affliction in a foreign land for four hundred years. It might even be a sin, involving the loss of the Abrahamic covenant, to quit the land of Canaan, which Abraham had expressly forbidden Isaac to abandon (Genesis 24:8). Isaac, too, when going into Egypt, had been commanded to remain in Palestine (Genesis 26:2). Jacob therefore determines solemnly to consult God before finally taking so important a step, and no place could be more suitable than Beersheba, as both Abraham and Isaac had built altars there for Jehovah’s worship (Genesis 21:33; Genesis 26:25), and, moreover, it lay upon the route from Hebron to Egypt.

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and his siblings, and now their children. The fourth generation after Abraham are heading to the foreign land of Egypt; prophesied by God back in Genesis 15:13.