Rabbi Yochanan Witnesses the Miracle at the Jordan

Rabbi Yohanan was sitting and expounding how the waters were made for Israel like a wall. Rabbi Yohanan expounded: like these lattices. Serah daughter of Asher peered down and said: "I was there, and they were not so, but rather like these clear windows." Rabbi Yohanan was sitting and expounding: "All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins," etc. (Genesis 46:26), "and Joseph and his two sons" — yet behold, they are short by one. Rabbi Levi in the name of Rabbi Hama bar Hanina: this is Jochebed, who was born between the walls of Egypt [at the very entry into Egypt]. And some say: Serah daughter of Asher completed the number of Israel: "I am of the peaceable and faithful of Israel" (2 Samuel 20:19) — [read:] I completed the number of Israel, I completed the faithful for the faithful. Rabbi Tanhum bar Hanilai said: the Holy One, blessed be He, entered with them in His glory. And what is the reason? "He is your praise, and He is your God" (Deuteronomy 10:21); what is written after it? "With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt" (ibid. v. 22).