Vayigash 46:27 · unit 1

TT #23 · 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 Bava Basra 123a.

TT lemma: the seventy.

Chazal

Core Text
בִּכְלָלָן אַתָּה מוֹצֵא שִׁבְעִים, בִּפְרָטָן אַתָּה מוֹצֵא שִׁבְעִים חָסֵר אֶחָד ... זוֹ יוֹכֶבֶד שֶׁהוֹרָתָה בַּדֶּרֶךְ וְלִידָתָהּ בֵּין הַחוֹמוֹת.

English: In the total you find seventy, but in the detailed count you find one fewer ... This is Yocheved, who was conceived on the journey and born between the walls.

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.