reckoned at seventy, whereas the numbers added up make only sixty-nine. How is that? • Rav Cheyah made answer that the particle in verse 15, implies that Dinah must have been one of twin-sisters. "But," objected the other, " the same particle occurs also in connection with Benjamin, to say nothing of other instances." "Alas!" said Rav Cheyah, " I am possessed of a secret worth knowing, and thou art trying to worm it out of me." Then interposed Rav Chama bar Chanena, " The number may be made up by reckoning Jochebed in, for of her it is said (Num. xxvi. 59) *that her mother bare her to Levi in Egypt; her birth took place in Egypt, though she was conceived on the journey."