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Genesis 30:17-21
God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.Leah said,“ God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.Leah said,“ God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
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Genesis 29:32-35
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said,“ Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”She conceived again, and bore a son, and said,“ Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.She conceived again, and bore a son. She said,“ Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.She conceived again, and bore a son. She said,“ This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
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Genesis 34:1-31
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying,“ Get me this young lady as a wife.”Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.Hamor talked with them, saying,“ The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”Shechem said to her father and to her brothers,“ Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,and said to them,“ We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,“ These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,“ You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”They said,“ Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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Genesis 49:3-15
“ 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 my couch.“ Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self- will they hamstrung cattle.Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.“ Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.“ Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.“ Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
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Numbers 26:1-65
After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,“ Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,“ Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel.” These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.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 the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty- three thousand seven hundred thirty.The son of Pallu: Eliab.The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh;and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty- two thousand two hundred.The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy- six thousand five hundred.The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted of them, sixty- four thousand three hundred.The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred.The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty- two thousand seven hundred.These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty- two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty- five thousand six hundred.These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty- four thousand four hundred.The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty- three thousand and four hundred.The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty- five thousand four hundred.These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,“ To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”These are those who were counted of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.Those who were counted of them were twenty- three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.For Yahweh had said of them,“ They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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1 Chronicles 2 1
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
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Numbers 1:1-54
Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,“ 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,from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.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: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty- six thousand five hundred.Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty- nine thousand three hundred.Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty- five thousand six hundred fifty.Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy- four thousand six hundred.Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty- four thousand four hundred.Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty- seven thousand four hundred.Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty- two thousand two hundred.Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty- five thousand four hundred.Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty- two thousand seven hundred.Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty- one thousand five hundred.Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty- three thousand four hundred.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 years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,“ Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.
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Exodus 1:2-3
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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Numbers 10:1-36
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,“ Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.“ The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.“ Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.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 son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father- in- law,“ We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said,‘ I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”He said to him,“ I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”Moses said,“ Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.It shall be, if you go with us— yes, it shall be— that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you.”They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.When the ark went forward, Moses said,“ Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”When it rested, he said,“ Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”
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Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
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Genesis 35:23
The sons of Leah: Reuben( Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
