The brief line names Hushim as Dan's son, making him Jacob's grandson. It belongs to the record of Israel journeying to Egypt with his descendants and all that he had and of their reception by Joseph and Pharaoh. Within that journey it forms one entry in the detailed listing of the seventy who went down to Egypt. That listing stands in the closing story of Joseph and his brethren in the last chapters of Genesis, the Book of Beginnings.
Because the count lists men, while wives and daughters were additional, the full number of Israelites who went down was greater than the male count alone. The keeping of this register shows God's care and providence in preserving the progenitors of the Seed.
The brief line names Hushim as Dan's son, making him Jacob's grandson.
It belongs to the record of Israel journeying to Egypt with his descendants and all that he had and of their reception by Joseph and Pharaoh.
Within that journey it forms one entry in the detailed listing of the seventy who went down to Egypt.
That listing stands in the closing story of Joseph and his brethren in the last chapters of Genesis, the Book of Beginnings.
Because the count lists men, while wives and daughters were additional, the full number of Israelites who went down was greater than the male count alone.
The keeping of this register shows God's care and providence in preserving the progenitors of the Seed.