Pemikiran Yahudi Kejadian 46:27: Sefer HaIkkarim

A still more important consideration is that a person should correct only that which he knows. But the Apostles, as it seems, were not familiar with the law of Moses. For we find in the seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles that according to Stephen, Joseph brought his father Jacob to Egypt with seventy-five souls. Then Jacob and his ancestors died and were buried in Shechem in the cave which Abraham bought with silver from the sons of Hamor, son of Shechem, all of which is different from the explicit account of the Torah. In the book of Genesis, section Vayyiggash, all the persons are enumerated by name who came to Egypt with Jacob. And together with Joseph and his sons, there are not more than seventy. And we have an explicit statement, “Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons.” The cave which Abraham bought was in Hebron and not in Shechem. And he did not buy it from the sons of Hamor, son of Shechem, but from Ephron the Hittite, as is explicitly stated. Moreover, in the thirteenth chapter, Paul says that the Israelites asked Samuel for a king and he gave them the son of Kish, a Benjaminite, who reigned forty years. This contradicts the text, according to which he reigned only three or four years. They can not answer these criticisms by saying that the Jews falsified the text, for the point does not affect religious belief. It seems therefore that they were not familiar with the words of the Torah and the Prophets.