Genesis 46:5

Beer-sheba Jacob's home, as of his fathers, according to E (Genesis 21:31; Genesis 22:19).

the sons of Israel … Jacob their father It is not often that the two names are found in such close collocation in the same clause; see note on Genesis 46:2. In all probability it betokens the work of editing and compiling the parallel narratives, of which J uses "Israel," and E and P prefer "Jacob."

6, 7 (P). P's summarized account of the descent into Egypt. Observe the characteristic words "their goods which they had gotten"; "his seed"; "sons" sons" and "sons" daughters"; and the marked redundancy in style, similar to what is found in Genesis 12:5; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 36:6; which are all from the P narrative.

8 27 (P). We have here a list of "the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt."

(a) With certain variations and expansions, the list appears also in Numbers 26:5-51 (with the omission of Levi), and in 1 Chronicles 2-8. Moreover in Exodus 6:14-16 we find the same list, so far as relates to Reuben, Simeon, and Levi (Genesis 46:9Hebrews 6:19 f., Exodus 9:7-8; Exodus 10:19-22, the veil (with allusion to the fact that the high priest alone, and that only once in the year, entered into the Holy of holies) is regarded as forming an impediment to the approach to God, which was broken down by Christ, when He entered by His own blood into the -holy place" in heaven (Hebrews 9:12; Hebrews 9:24-26).

of the cunning workman of the designer (v.1).