English: “The family of the Chanochi” — because the nations would mock them, saying: How can these trace descent by their tribes? Do they think the Egyptians did not overpower their mothers? If they mastered their bodies, all the more their wives. Therefore the Holy One placed His Name upon them — heh on one side and yud on the other — to say: I testify concerning them that they are the sons of their fathers.
Type of Learning
Divine testimony embedded in the census family names.
What Is Learned
The heh–yud frame of each family name answers the nations’ slur against Yisrael’s lineage.