Take the 2-minute tour ×  B'reshis chapter 46 lists the seventy
descendants of Yaakov who went to Egypt. It actually lists
sixty-nine: let's assume Yocheved was the seventieth, as Rashi
explains. It also lists (in pasuk 12) two who died before the
trip down, so there are a total of 72 descendants of Yaakov
listed. Of these, three are female: Yocheved, Serach, and Dina.
Assuming a 50% chance of having a boy at each birth, the
probability of such a disproportionate number of babies of one
sex is about 0.000000000000003%. What's going on?  (And if you
want to say there were females not listed (besides Yocheved),
then you have to explain why the Torah says there were seventy
(do the females not count?) and why it lists some females and
not others. That's even if, as suggested in an answer, there are
dead females not listed: the Torah lists dead males, after all.)
share|improve this question Is Dina listed? –  jake Jan 11 '12
at 20:49 @jake, yes, she is. –  msh210 Jan 11 '12 at 20:51 (See
Rashi, Bemidbar 26:24) (