Vayigash 46:27 · unit 1

Parashas Vayigash · Passuk 46:27

The Complete Passuk

וּבְנֵ֥י יוֹסֵ֛ף אֲשֶׁר־יֻלַּד־ל֥וֹ בְמִצְרַ֖יִם נֶ֣פֶשׁ שְׁנָ֑יִם כׇּל־הַנֶּ֧פֶשׁ לְבֵֽית־יַעֲקֹ֛ב הַבָּ֥אָה מִצְרַ֖יְמָה שִׁבְעִֽים׃

And the sons of Yosef who were born to him in Egypt were two persons; all the persons of the house of Yaakov who came to Egypt were seventy.

Chabad / Judaica Press

Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to classical sources on the final total of seventy.

TT lemma: the seventy.

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
וּבְנֵי יוֹסֵף אֲשֶׁר יֻלַּד לוֹ בְמִצְרַיִם נֶפֶשׁ שְׁנַיִם — כׇּל הַנֶּפֶשׁ לְבֵית יַעֲקֹב הַבָּאָה מִצְרַיְמָה שִׁבְעִים.

English: “And the sons of Yosef who were born to him in Egypt were two persons” — “all the persons of the house of Yaakov who came to Egypt were seventy.”

On the daf / in context: Adding Yosef’s two sons born in Egypt brings the household to the traditional seventy.

Type of Learning

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

What Is Learned

The house of Yaakov that entered Egypt numbered seventy souls.