point of fact three generations had intervened between them. Now, Dr. Colenso must admit that his examples will prove absolutely nothing, if omissions of this kind were made in the genealogies from which they are taken. _We_ do not assert that such _was_ the case; but we challenge _him_ to prove that it was _not_. Take, for example, the text: "And the sons of Pallu, Eliab" (_Num._, xxvi. 8). Can he show that no intervening links are omitted between these two names? He will find, on a close examination of the Pentateuch, from which he professes to derive his data, that Pallu must have been over 110 years of age when Eliab was born. It is, therefore, most likely that there were two or perhaps three links omitted in this genealogy between Pallu and Eliab. If so, we should add two or three generations in the examples which Dr. Colenso has adduced from the family of Pallu. He cannot argue that Pallu was the _immediate father_ of Eliab, because it is said that Eliab was the _son_ of Pallu: for do we not also read: "The Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the _son of David_, the _son of Abraham"?_ (_Matth._, i. 1). II. Dr. Colenso next assumes that the 600,000 men of the exodus were _all_ descendants of Jacob. We contend, as a far more probable opinion, that amongst them were counted, not only the descendants of _Jacob himself_, but also the descendants of his _servants_. If we take up the book of Genesis, and glance through the brief history of the Patriarchs, we shall find abundant reason to believe that, when Jacob was invited by Joseph to come down into Egypt, he must have had a goodly retinue of servants. His grandfather, Abraham, had been able to lead forth an army of 318 servants "_born in his house_" (_Gen._, xiv. 14). It is not unreasonable to suppose that, according to the custom of those times, he had other servants not born in his house, but "bought with money".[13] At all events the number was considerably increased by a present from Abimeleck, who "took sheep, and oxen, and _men-servants_, and _women-servants_, and gave them unto Abraham" (_Gen._, xx. 14). Upon his death this immense household passed into the possession of his Son Isaac; for "Abraham gave _all that he had_ to Isaac" (_Gen._, xxv. 5). Isaac, too, we are told, "increased, and went on increasing, until he became very great; and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a _numerous household_; and the Philistines envied him" (_Gen._, xxvi. 13, 14). As to Jacob himself, he was sent by Isaac to Padan-Aram, where he served his father-in-law Laban for twenty years. While there, it is said, he "increased exceedingly, and had many flocks, and _women-servants_, and _men-servants_, and camels, and asses" (_Gen._, xxx. 43). All these he took with him when he set out from Padan-Aram to return to Canaan (_Gen._, xxxi. 18; xxiii. 5, 7). In addition to this large retinue, Jacob must also have inherited, in virtue of his birthright, a double portion (_Deut._, xxi.