"A Midrash told that when in the steward found Joseph's cup in Benjamin's belongings, his brothers beat Benjamin on his shoulders, calling him a thief and the son of a thief, and saying that he had shamed them as Rachel had shamed Jacob when she stole Laban's idols in And by virtue of receiving those unwarranted blows between his shoulders, Benjamin's descendants merited having the Divine Presence rest between his shoulders and the Temple rest in Jerusalem, as reports, "He dwells between his shoulders"

Reading and 22 (and other verses), Rabbi Johanan noted that the lion has six names – , "ari" in  , "kefir"; , "lavi" in  , "laish"; , "shachal"; and , "shachatz".The Mishnah applied to Moses the words of "He executed the righteousness of the Lord and His ordinances with Israel," deducing therefrom that Moses was righteous and caused many to be righteous, and therefore the righteousness of the many was credited to him.