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Genesis 30:17-21
God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.Then Leah said,“ God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time.Then Leah said,“ God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.After that she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
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Genesis 29:32-35
So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said,“ The LORD has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. Surely my husband will love me now.”She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“ Because the LORD heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“ Now this time my husband will show me affection, because I have given birth to three sons for him.” That is why he was named Levi.She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“ This time I will praise the LORD.” That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
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Genesis 34:1-31
Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.Shechem said to his father Hamor,“ Acquire this young girl as my wife.”When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in.Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob’s daughter, a crime that should not be committed.But Hamor made this appeal to them:“ My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers,“ Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me I’ll give.You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.They said to them,“ We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly.( Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,“ These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,“ You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land– among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”But Simeon and Levi replied,“ Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”
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Genesis 49:3-15
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it– he got on my couch!Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their knives!O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.You are a lion’s cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness– who will rouse him?The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.Binding his foal to the vine, and his colt to the choicest vine, he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.His eyes will be dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk.Zebulun will live by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon.Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.When he sees a good resting place, and the pleasant land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and become a slave laborer.
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Numbers 26:1-65
After the plague the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,“ Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.”So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said,“ Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites;from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Carmi, the family of the Carmites.These were the families of the Reubenites; and those numbered of them were 43,730.Pallu’s descendant was Eliab.Eliab’s descendants were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram who as leaders of the community rebelled against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah when they rebelled against the LORD.The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.But the descendants of Korah did not die.The Simeonites by their families: from Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; from Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; from Jakin, the family of the Jakinites;from Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; and from Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.These were the families of the Simeonites, 22,200.The Gadites by their families: from Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; from Haggi, the family of the Haggites; from Shuni, the family of the Shunites;from Ozni, the family of the Oznites; from Eri, the family of the Erites;from Arod, the family of the Arodites, and from Areli, the family of the Arelites.These were the families of the Gadites according to those numbered of them, 40,500.The descendants of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.And the Judahites by their families were: from Shelah, the family of the Shelahites; from Perez, the family of the Perezites; and from Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.And the Perezites were: from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.These were the families of Judah according to those numbered of them, 76,500.The Issacharites by their families: from Tola, the family of the Tolaites; from Puah, the family of the Puites;from Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; and from Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.These were the families of Issachar, according to those numbered of them, 64,300.The Zebulunites by their families: from Sered, the family of the Sardites; from Elon, the family of the Elonites; from Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.These were the families of the Zebulunites, according to those numbered of them, 60,500.The descendants of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.The Manassehites: from Machir, the family of the Machirites( now Machir became the father of Gilead); from Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.These were the Gileadites: from Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; from Helek, the family of the Helekites;from Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; from Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;from Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; from Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.These were the families of Manasseh; those numbered of them were 52,700.These are the Ephraimites by their families: from Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; from Beker, the family of the Bekerites; from Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.Now these were the Shuthelahites: from Eran, the family of the Eranites.These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.The Benjaminites by their families: from Bela, the family of the Belaites; from Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; from Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;from Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites; from Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.The descendants of Bela were Ard and Naaman. From Ard, the family of the Ardites; from Naaman, the family of the Naamanites.These are the Benjaminites, according to their families, and according to those numbered of them, 45,600.These are the Danites by their families: from Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These were the families of Dan, according to their families.All the families of the Shuhahites according to those numbered of them were 64,400.The Asherites by their families: from Imnah, the family of the Imnahites; from Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; from Beriah, the family of the Beriahites.From the Beriahites: from Heber, the family of the Heberites; from Malkiel, the family of the Malkielites.Now the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.These are the families of the Asherites, according to those numbered of them, 53,400.The Naphtalites by their families: from Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; from Guni, the family of the Gunites;from Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; from Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.These were the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those numbered of them were 45,400.These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.Then the LORD spoke to Moses:“ To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it.The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.Their inheritance must be apportioned by lot among the larger and smaller groups.And these are the Levites who were numbered according to their families: from Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; from Merari, the family of the Merarites.These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.Now the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And to Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister.And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho.But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.For the LORD had said of them,“ They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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1 Chronicles 2 1
These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar and Zebulun;
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Numbers 1:1-54
Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites departed from the land of Egypt. He said:“ Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army, those who are twenty years old or older, by their divisions.And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,just as the LORD had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.And they were as follows: The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46, 500.From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59, 300.From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Gad were 45,650.From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Judah were 74,600.From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700.From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Asher were 41,500.From the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom was from his own family.All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered according to their families.And all those numbered totaled 603,550.But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.The LORD had said to Moses,“ Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.“ The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the LORD’s anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony.”The Israelites did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses– that is what they did.
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Exodus 1:2-3
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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Numbers 10:1-36
The LORD spoke to Moses:“ Make two trumpets of silver; you are to make them from a single hammered piece. You will use them for assembling the community and for directing the traveling of the camps.When they blow them both, all the community must come to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.“ But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you.When you blow an alarm, then the camps that are located on the east side must begin to travel.And when you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are located on the south side must begin to travel. An alarm must be sounded for their journeys.But when you assemble the community, you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm.The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets; and they will be to you for an eternal ordinance throughout your generations.If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.“ Also in the time when you rejoice, such as on your appointed festivals or at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may become a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the LORD, by the authority of Moses.The standard of the camp of the Judahites set out first according to their companies, and over his company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.Over the company of the tribe of Issacharites was Nathanel son of Zuar,and over the company of the tribe of the Zebulunites was Elion son of Helon.Then the tabernacle was dismantled, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.The standard of the camp of Reuben set out according to their companies; over his company was Elizur son of Shedeur.Over the company of the tribe of the Simeonites was Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai,and over the company of the tribe of the Gadites was Eliasaph son of Deuel.And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; the tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.And the standard of the camp of the Ephraimites set out according to their companies; over his company was Elishama son of Ammihud.Over the company of the tribe of the Manassehites was Gamaliel son of Pedahzur,and over the company of the tribe of Benjaminites was Abidan son of Gideoni.The standard of the camp of the Danites set out, which was the rear guard of all the camps by their companies; over his company was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.Over the company of the tribe of the Asherites was Pagiel son of Ocran,and over the company of the tribe of the Naphtalites was Ahira son of Enan.These were the traveling arrangements of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled.Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,“ We are journeying to the place about which the LORD said,‘ I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things for Israel.”But Hobab said to him,“ I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”Moses said,“ Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.And if you come with us, it is certain that whatever good things the LORD will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”So they traveled from the mountain of the LORD three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.And when the ark traveled, Moses would say,“ Rise up, O LORD! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!”And when it came to rest he would say,“ Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel!”
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Genesis 25:20
When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
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Genesis 35:23
The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, as well as Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
