BRAGADAYJAH 150

If we remember our Bible history, we would know that the numbers that Moses led up out of Egypt after 400 years were 600,000 able bodied men; so now we take stock and note how many Jacob alias Israel led down with him, being all members of his own family, that is to say his eleven sons, Joseph was already in Egypt, and their family. Apart from Israel’s daughter Dinah, Israel’s other daughters were not named although mentioned. Dinah had two sons, and all of Israel’s children had children of their own before Israel took the journey down into Egypt. Counting the children of Leah and their sons and Dinah and her two sons, the number of them was thirty three. Also Israel bore some 23 children by the maids of Leah and Rachel and it would seem by the time of the Exodus to Egypt young Benjamin was himself most prolific bearing ten sons. So that apart from any other children born to daughters and any possible great grand children there were at least sixty and six direct offspring of Israel that started off with him as he set out to settle in the land of Egypt. When news reached Joseph that his father had arrived at Goshen in Egypt, the place designated him by his son and the Pharaoh, Joseph made ready his chariot and went and met his father Israel there, whereupon they hugged and clung to each other and wept a good deal of weeping. Then Israel said to Joseph his son, “Now let me die since I have seen your face and you are yet alive.” More