“And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.”
These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt: Jacob and his sons: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob. The list of seventy names that follows is the covenant family's complete census at the moment of entry into Egypt. The application: the names matter. The seventy who go down to Egypt are the seventy from whom the nation will emerge. Numbers always matter in the biblical narrative.
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