Category:Twelve Tribes of Israel

The twelve tribes of Israel are named after the twelve sons of Jacob (later named Israel). The order of their births (to four different mothers) is listed below.

Leah (the elder sister of Rachel and first wife of Jacob by trickery of Laban, her father): 1. Reuben 2. Simeon 3. Levi 4. Judah 9. Issachar 10. Zebulun Bilhah (Rachel's slave): 5. Dan 6. Naphtali Zilpah (Leah's slave): 7. Gad 8. Asher Rachel (the second wife of Jacob, who worked 14 years for Laban, her father, so he could marry her): 11. Joseph 12. Benjamin Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, who are sometimes named separately in lists of the twelve tribes. In some later texts, the half-tribe of Manasseh is further divided into its eastern and western halves.

Mention of the twelve tribes (or partial lists of the twelve tribes of Israel are as follows:

'''Genesis 29:31–30:24 Genesis 35:16-20 Genesis 35:22-26 Genesis 46:8-27 Genesis 49:1-27 Exodus 1:1-5 Numbers 1:5-15 Numbers 1:20-46 & 47-54 Numbers 2:3-29 Numbers 7:1-88 Numbers 10:11-28 Numbers 13:4-15 Numbers 26:5-50 Numbers 34:19-28 Deuteronomy 27:12-13 Deuteronomy 33:1-29 Joshua 13–19 Joshua 21:4-8 Judges 5:12-22 1 Chronicles 2:1-2 1 Chronicles 2–7 1 Chronicles 12:24-38  1 Chronicles 27:16-22 Ezekiel 48:1-29 Ezekiel 48:30-34 Revelation 7:5-8

The tables below shows the order in which the tribes are listed in each of the above passages.