And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
Genesis 46:13 names Issachar's four sons as Tola, Phuvah, Job, and Shimron as part of the list of Jacob's descendants who went down to Egypt. The verse belongs to the detailed historical account of the origin of the twelve tribes, namely Jacob's family and the seventy who went down to Egypt in the history of Abraham's family and Israel's sojourn there. The chapter is a record of God's care in preserving the ancestors of the promised Seed.
The count of seventy lists the men, sixty-eight in number, while wives and daughters are additional and not included, and the women surely outnumbered the men because many men had more than one wife. The list counts sons and grandsons, and two women, but does not include all the people who accompanied Jacob. God's providence sent and directed Israel in going into Egypt, though no Scripture states it directly in those words, with a twofold purpose to preserve His own people from famine and to try them and to keep the representatives of God's truth constantly before Egypt.
The Job named here, properly spelled Iob, is a different person from Job of the book of Job, the old Idumean patriarch, since the two English-looking names come from different words in the original, as with many Old Testament names repeated for entirely different individuals. Those who held the other view taught that the Job named here as one of the sons of Issachar is the same person as the Job of the book of Job.
Genesis 46:13 names Issachar's four sons as Tola, Phuvah, Job, and Shimron as part of the list of Jacob's descendants who went down to Egypt. The verse belongs to the detailed historical account of the origin of the twelve tribes, namely Jacob's family and the seventy who went down to Egypt in the history of Abraham's family and Israel's sojourn there. The chapter is a record of God's care in preserving the ancestors of the promised Seed.
The count of seventy lists the men, sixty-eight in number, while wives and daughters are additional and not included, and the women surely outnumbered the men because many men had more than one wife. The list counts sons and grandsons, and two women, but does not include all the people who accompanied Jacob. God's providence sent and directed Israel in going into Egypt, though no Scripture states it directly in those words, with a twofold purpose to preserve His own people from famine and to try them and to keep the representatives of God's truth constantly before Egypt.
The Job named here, properly spelled Iob, is a different person from Job of the book of Job, the old Idumean patriarch, since the two English-looking names come from different words in the original, as with many Old Testament names repeated for entirely different individuals. Those who held the other view taught that the Job named here as one of the sons of Issachar is the same person as the Job of the book of Job.