First of all, I think it is impossible for it to have happened accidentally that those who receive a portion through Moses were all firstborn.8 For Reuben was the firstborn of Leah;9 Gad, the firstborn of Zilpah;10 and Manasseh, the firstborn of Asenath the Egyptian whom Joseph married, the daughter of Potiphar the priest of Heliopolis.11 For myself, I can never be persuaded that it was by chance that the firstborn were the only ones whose inheritance was determined through Moses. Rather, I believe