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GRANDCHILDREN
 


We  complete the study of ALIGNMENT of Nu26 and Gn46

In todays list we study the GRANDCHILDREN who were assigned
tribal status like the children. Some clarification is
as follows

- Jacob was the Patriarch
- Jacobs children all had TRIBAL status.Thus e.g. his son
REUVEN became the REUVEN tribe
- Joseph was a special exception. Even though he was a
child there is no JOSEPH tribe. Rather, EPHRAIM and
MENASHEH, Josephs children, have TRIBAL status
- The children of each tribe--that is Jacobs
grandchildren each has FAMILY status. Thus for
example, REUVEN had a child CHANOCH and so we have the
CHANOCH FAMILY of the REVUEN tribe.
- In general great-grandchildren did not have any special
status
- However both Gn46 and Nu26 record several Grandchildren
of the tribes (Great Grandchildren of Jacob) who were
assigned FAMILY status.

We can explain why grandchildren were assigned child status
using a ZIP code analogy.  Recall a zip code
is a connected area in which mail is delivered. However
if some block in this area has alot of mail--say a mall
--then the post office will give
this special block its own zip code. The
multiple zip codes facilitates mail delivery since each zip
code has equal bulk.

So to with the tribes. e.g SHUTHELACH had
many children; one of them, AYRAN, had more grandchildren
then the others. It facilitates division if
AYRAN has his own family status; the SHUTHELACH status
then refers to all the remaining grandchildren.

Here is the list of TRIBES=CHILDREN(of Jacob) and GRANDCHILDREN
(children of Tribes) who had CHILD status


Child Tribe
GrandChild Tribe
Nu Verse
Gn Verse


Peretz
Chetzron
Nu26-21
Gn46-12


Peretz
Chamul
Nu26-11
Gn46-12


Briah
Chever
Nu26-44:45
Gn46-17


Briah
Malciayl
Nu26-44:45
Gn46-17


Belah
Ard
Nu26-40
Gn46-21


Belah
Naaman
Nu26-40
Gn46-21*1


Macir
Gilad
Nu26-29
Gn46-20*2


Gilad
Iezri
Nu26-30:32
-------*3


Gilad
Chelek
Nu26-30:32
-------*3


Gilad
Asriel
Nu26-30:32
-------*3


Gilad
Schem
Nu26-30:32
-------*3


Gilad
Shmidah
Nu26-30:32
-------*3


Shuthalach
Ayran
Nu26-36
-------*2








COMMENTS

*1 The explanation of the contradiction (--Gn46-21
   calls them CHILDREN of Binyamin while Nu26-40 calls
   them GRANDCHILDREN of Binyamin) seems to be resolved
   in Gn48-05:06 where Jacob gives CHILD status to
   his grandchildren thru Joseph--Menasheh & Ephraim

   By analogy ARD and NAAMAN
   were assigned CHILD STATUS

*2 Joseph had a special status among the
   children Jacob explicitly in Gn48-05:06
   states that Josephs children (which are Jacobs granchildren)
   will have CHILD status.

   Hence the families mentioned in Nu do not have analogous
   verses in Genesis

*3 EEZER GILAD and MACIR all had child status
   even though EEZER was GILADS child and MACIRS grandchild