Genesis 49:28

Tree of Life Version

These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this is what their father spoke to them. He blessed them, each one he blessed with a suitable blessing.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.

Genesis 49:27

Benjamin is a ravening wolf— in the morning he devours spoils, and in the evening divides plunder.

Genesis 49:29

Then he charged them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

1 Kings 18:31

Elijah took twelve stones—like the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Adonai had come saying, “Israel shall be your name”—

Esther 8:11

The king granted the right for Jews in every city to assemble themselves and to protect themselves—to destroy, kill and annihilate any army of any people or province that might attack them and their women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 8:7

King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, “I have decided to give Haman’s estate to Esther and had him hanged on the gallows, because he stretched out his hand against the Jews.

Esther 8:9

So the king’s scribes were called at that time—on the 23rd day of the third month, the month of Sivan. It was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to all the Jews, as well as to the officials, governors and advisors of all the 127 provinces that stretch from India to Ethiopia. To each province it was written in its own script and in its own language, and also to the Jews in their own writing and language.

Exodus 28:21

The stones are to be engraved in the order of the names of Bnei-Yisrael, twelve according to their names, like the etchings of a signet seal, one corresponding to each name of the twelve tribes.

Numbers 23:24

The people rise like a lioness, like a lion who does not rest until he eats his prey and drinks his victim’s blood!”

Acts 26:7

It is the promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jewish people, O King!

Deuteronomy 33:1

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed Bnei-Yisrael before his death.

James 1:1

Jacob, a slave of God and of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, To the twelve tribes in the Diaspora: Shalom!

Revelation 7:4

Now I heard the number of those marked with the seal: 144,000 from every tribe of Bnei-Yisrael—