Tribes of Israel, The

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• Genesis 49:28 OT

  All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

• Acts 26:12 NT

  “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

• James 1:1 NT

  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

• Genesis 35:22-26 OT

  While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.…

• Genesis 48:5 OT

  Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

• Joshua 14:3 OT

  For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

• Joshua 14:4 OT

  For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

• Genesis 49:3-27 OT

  “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to…

• Deuteronomy 33:6-29 OT

  “Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.” This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.” About…

• Numbers 1:4-16 OT

  With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house. These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. Of Judah:…

• Numbers 1:2 OT

  “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,

• Numbers 26:5-50 OT

  Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. These are the families of…

• Joshua 7:14 OT

  In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh…

• Numbers 31:4 OT

  You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”

• Numbers 36:1 OT

  The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the…

• 1 Chronicles 4:38 OT

  these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

• Exodus 12:37 OT

  The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.

• Numbers 1:44-46 OT

  These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house. So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty…

• Numbers 2:32 OT

  These are those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

• Numbers 10:14-28 OT

  First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army. Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar. Eliab the…

• Numbers 2:2-31 OT

  “The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.” Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall…

• Numbers 33:54 OT

  You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit…

• Deuteronomy 3:12-17 OT

  This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites; and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the…

• Joshua 13:23-32 OT

  The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages. Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according…