Benjamin] Benjamin was the youngest, and so should have been named last, if he had been ranked by his age: but he is here placed the seventh in order, as the youngest of the sonnes of Jacobs wives, and before the rest, because they were the sonnes of the handmaids, and of them the first named are the children of Bilhah (Rachels handmaid) Genesis 30. 3. and then the children of Zilpah, (Leahs handmaid) Genesis 29:24. Joseph is not written in this Registry, because he was in Egypt before these came thither.