The Importance of Numbers in the Abrahamic Promise

There's a couple of interesting literary features about this genealogy. Lea and Zilpa's children are number 49, so that's seven by seven. Then you have Rachel's children, which is 14 to seven by two. And then you have Bill Ha's kids, which is just seven. So you have all these kind of seven organizations moving through the genealogy. That comes to a climactic point as our friend Jim would say. At the end of the genealogy where you have all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were 70, which is seven by 10. But why is 70 important? 70 years. Well, we've seen 70 before in a