While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Genesis 49:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Benjamin is a wolf; he tears his prey. In the morning he devours the prey, and in the evening he divides the plunder.’
Then he commanded them, ‘I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hethite.
Elijah took twelve stones #– #according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, ‘Israel will be your name’ #– #
The king’s edict gave the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate every ethnic and provincial army hostile to them, including women and children, and to take their possessions as spoils of war.
King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, ‘Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
On the twenty-third day of the third month #– #that is, the month Sivan #– #the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai commanded for the Jews, to the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush. The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the twelve tribes.
A people rise up like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion. They will not lie down until they devour the prey and drink the blood of the slain.
the promise our twelve tribes hope to reach as they earnestly serve him night and day. King Agrippa, I am being accused by the Jews because of this hope.
This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: To the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. , Greetings.
And I heard the number of the sealed: 144,000 sealed from every tribe of the Israelites: