Vayigash 46:7 · unit 1

TT #18 · Parashas Vayigash · Passuk 46:07

The Complete Passuk

בָּנָ֞יו וּבְנֵ֤י בָנָיו֙ אִתּ֔וֹ בְּנֹתָ֛יו וּבְנ֥וֹת בָּנָ֖יו וְכׇל־זַרְע֑וֹ הֵבִ֥יא אִתּ֖וֹ מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

His sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his offspring he brought with him to Egypt.

Chabad / Judaica Press

Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to Yalkut Shimoni on Genesis 46, remez 152.

TT lemma: the enumeration of the seed of Yaakov.

Chazal

Core Text
בָּנָיו וּבְנֵי בָנָיו. אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוּדָה בַּר אֶלְעָאי: בְּנוֹת בָּנִים הֲרֵי הֵן כְּבָנִים, וּבְנֵי בָנוֹת אֵינָם כְּבָנוֹת. כָּתוּב אֶחָד אוֹמֵר בְּנֹתָיו וְכָתוּב אֶחָד אוֹמֵר וְאֵת דִּינָה בִתּוֹ, אֶלָּא לְלַמֶּדְךָ שֶׁבְּנוֹתָיו שֶׁל יַעֲקֹב נְשֵׁי בָנָיו הָיוּ, וְכָל זַרְעוֹ שֶׁל יַעֲקֹב נָשְׂאוּ אַחְיוֹת וְאֶת שְׁאֵר בְּשָׂרָם כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא יִתְחַתְּנוּ בְּעַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ, לְפִיכָךְ נִקְרְאוּ זֶרַע אֱמֶת.

English: “His sons and his grandsons.” Rabbi Yehudah bar Elai said: Granddaughters are like sons, but the sons of daughters are not like daughters. The verse calls them “his daughters,” while elsewhere it calls Dinah “his daughter”; this teaches that Jacob’s “daughters” were his sons’ wives, and Jacob’s descendants married their sisters and other close kin so they would not marry among the peoples of the land; therefore they were called true offspring.

On the daf / in context: The verse establishes the complete household that forms the base for the later count of seventy souls.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (midrashic accounting) — not a formal named middah of the 13.

What Is Learned

The entire seed of Yaakov — sons, grandsons, daughters, and granddaughters — entered Egypt together.