Genesis 49:28

Good News Translation

These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said as he spoke a suitable word of farewell to each son.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.

Genesis 49:27

“Benjamin is like a vicious wolf. Morning and evening he kills and devours.”

Genesis 49:29

Then Jacob commanded his sons, “Now that I am going to join my people in death, bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

1 Kings 18:31

He took twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes named for the sons of Jacob, the man to whom the Lord had given the name Israel.

Esther 8:11

These letters explained that the king would allow the Jews in every city to organize for self-defense. If armed men of any nationality in any province attacked the Jewish men, their children, or their women, the Jews could fight back and destroy the attackers; they could slaughter them to the last man and take their possessions.

Esther 8:7

King Xerxes then said to Queen Esther and Mordecai, the Jew, “Look, I have hanged Haman for his plot against the Jews, and I have given Esther his property.

Esther 8:9

This happened on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. Mordecai called the king's secretaries and dictated letters to the Jews and to the governors, administrators, and officials of all the 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia. The letters were written to each province in its own language and system of writing and to the Jews in their language and system of writing.

Exodus 28:21

Each of these twelve stones is to have engraved on it the name of one of the sons of Jacob, to represent the tribes of Israel.

Numbers 23:24

The nation of Israel is like a mighty lion: It doesn't rest until it has torn and devoured, Until it has drunk the blood of those it has killed.”

Acts 26:7

the very thing that the twelve tribes of our people hope to receive, as they worship God day and night. And it is because of this hope, Your Majesty, that I am being accused by these Jews!

Deuteronomy 33:1

These are the blessings that Moses, the man of God, pronounced on the people of Israel before he died.

James 1:1

From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings to all God's people scattered over the whole world.

Revelation 7:4

And I was told that the number of those who were marked with God's seal on their foreheads was 144,000. They were from the twelve tribes of Israel,