אנכי ארד עמך מצרימה ואנכי אעלך גם עלה. ירדו למצרים נמנה הקב"ה עמהם בעצמו ובכבודו שהרי בפרטן לא תמצא רק ס"ט וכתיב בשבעים נפש וגו' הרי שנמנה הקב"ה עמהם והיו שבעים וגם בעלותם עלו ששים רבוא חסר אחד ונמנה הקב"ה עמהם ועלה והיו שלמים. ד"א ואנכי אעלך גם עלה. לא תעלה על דעתך שתהיה שם ירוד כי אם גדול ומעולה תהיה שם: אנכי ארד עמך מצרימה, ואנכי אעלך גם עלה, “I (G–d speaking) will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also go back up with you (for you to be buried in the land of Canaan).” The wording when examined closely, implies that whereas G–d personally will accompany him on the way down to Egypt, an agent of His will supervise the return to the land of Canaan of his body when the time came. Proof for this interpretation is the fact that although 70 of his descendants have been mentioned as coming to Egypt, only sixty nine names have been listed, i.e. G–d Himself is considered as making up the seventieth. (Compare Deuteronomy 10,22) When the Israelites eventually would leave Egypt there was also one missing to make up the number 600000, this ‘one’ being G–d.” [This is why no precise number was quoted in Exodus 12,37 for the number of males that left Egypt, although on several counts in the desert, each time a precise number of the adult males is given. Ed.] Another interpretation: the words: אנכי אעלך גם עלה, are a correction by G–d for what Yaakov had thought of as a “descent” to Egypt. G–d tells him that far from being a “descent,” it will be seen as an ascent, by the time his descendants will leave Egypt.