Genesis 49:28

New Living Translation

These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said as he told his sons good-bye. He blessed each one with an appropriate message.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it. These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:

Genesis 49:27

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, devouring his enemies in the morning and dividing his plunder in the evening.”

Genesis 49:29

Then Jacob instructed them, “Soon I will die and join my ancestors. Bury me with my father and grandfather in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

1 Kings 18:31

He took twelve stones, one to represent each of the tribes of Israel,

Esther 8:11

The king’s decree gave the Jews in every city authority to unite to defend their lives. They were allowed to kill, slaughter, and annihilate anyone of any nationality or province who might attack them or their children and wives, and to take the property of their enemies.

Esther 8:7

Then King Xerxes said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, “I have given Esther the property of Haman, and he has been impaled on a pole because he tried to destroy the Jews.

Esther 8:9

So on June 25 the king’s secretaries were summoned, and a decree was written exactly as Mordecai dictated. It was sent to the Jews and to the highest officers, the governors, and the nobles of all the 127 provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia. The decree was written in the scripts and languages of all the peoples of the empire, including that of the Jews.

Exodus 28:21

Each stone will represent one of the twelve sons of Israel, and the name of that tribe will be engraved on it like a seal.

Numbers 23:24

These people rise up like a lioness, like a majestic lion rousing itself. They refuse to rest until they have feasted on prey, drinking the blood of the slaughtered!”

Acts 26:7

In fact, that is why the twelve tribes of Israel zealously worship God night and day, and they share the same hope I have. Yet, Your Majesty, they accuse me for having this hope!

Deuteronomy 33:1

This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the people of Israel before his death:

James 1:1

This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing to the “twelve tribes”—Jewish believers scattered abroad. Greetings!

Revelation 7:4

And I heard how many were marked with the seal of God—144,000 were sealed from all the tribes of Israel: