“And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: 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.”
Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. The departure from Beersheba with the Egyptian carts is the covenant family's movement into the new chapter of the covenant story — the descent into Egypt that will eventually require the Exodus. The application: the covenant family's movement into Egypt is the beginning of the formation period that will produce Israel as a nation. What begins as family settlement will become national identity.
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