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.
Genesis 49:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one of them with a suitable blessing. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each one according to the blessing suited to him. American Standard Version (1901) All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. Common English Bible These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them by giving each man his own particular blessing. Catholic Public Domain Version All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. These things their father spoke to them, and he blessed each one with their proper blessings. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one, with their proper blessings. |
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.
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.”
Then he charged them, saying to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name”;
By these letters the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, their children, and their women, and to plunder their goods
Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hung him on the pole because he plotted to kill the Jews.
The king’s secretaries were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Cush, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.
There shall be twelve stones with names corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
Look, a people rising up like a lioness and rousing itself like a lion! It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”
a promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship day and night. It is for this hope, Your Excellency, that I am accused by Jews!
This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Greetings.
And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the people of Israel: