Genesis 49:28

New American Bible - revised edition

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said about them, as he blessed them. To each he gave a suitable blessing.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was encamped in that region, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine. When Israel heard of it, he was greatly offended. The sons of Jacob were now twelve.

Genesis 49:27

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; mornings he devours the prey, and evenings he distributes the spoils.” Farewell and Death.

Genesis 49:29

Then he gave them this charge: “Since I am about to be gathered to my people, bury me with my ancestors in the cave that lies in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

1 Kings 18:31

He took twelve stones, for the number of tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said: Israel shall be your name.

Exodus 28:21

twelve of them to match the names of the sons of Israel, each stone engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

Numbers 23:24

Here is a people that rises up like a lioness, and gets up like a lion; It does not rest till it has devoured its prey and has drunk the blood of the slain.

Acts 26:7

Our twelve tribes hope to attain to that promise as they fervently worship God day and night; and on account of this hope I am accused by Jews, O king.

Deuteronomy 33:1

This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before he died.

James 1:1

James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, greetings. Perseverance in Trial.

Revelation 7:4

I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked from every tribe of the Israelites: