Genesis 46:3

I am God Lit. "I am the Êl," the name occurring in Genesis 31:13; Genesis 33:20; Genesis 35:1; cf. Genesis 16:13. LXX does not translate it. The Lat. gives fortissimus. It seems especially to be used of the Divine Being, the true God of Revelation, who had manifested Himself to Abraham and to Isaac.

fear not These and the following words seem to indicate the reason of Jacob's prayer and sacrifice at Beer-sheba. He needed reassurance at the thought of leaving his home and settling in Egypt in his old age.

there Jacob's family was to grow into a great people while they were still in Egypt (cf. Genesis 15:13-16).