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The Israelites were the descendants of twelve sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob. Jacob also had at least one daughter, Dinah, whose descendants were not recognized as a tribe. The sons of Jacob were born in Padan-aram from different mothers, as follows: [4] The sons of Leah; Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun
In the narrative, Jacob does not trust some of his older sons (12: 11, 18, 23) because they do not respect him. (12: 8, 16–17) Jacob's prophetic nature is evident from his foreknowledge of Joseph's future greatness (12:6), his foreboding and response to the supposed death of Joseph (12: 13, 18) and in his response to the sons' plight in Egypt.
According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (Hebrew: דָּן, Dān, "judgment" or "he judged") [2] was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah [3] (Jacob's fifth son). His mother, Bilhah, was Rachel's handmaid, who becomes one of Jacob's concubines (Book of Genesis, Genesis 35:22). In the Biblical account, he is the founder of the Israelite ...
Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין Bīnyāmīn; "Son of (the) right") [2] was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twelfth and youngest son overall. In Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin.
The ladder of Jacob : ancient interpretations of the biblical story of Jacob and his children. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12122-2. OCLC 698590791. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia.
According to some classical sources, Jacob suspected that Judah had killed Joseph, [35] especially, according to the Midrash Tanhuma, when Judah was the one who had brought the blood stained coat to Jacob. [26] The children of Jacob sell their brother Joseph by Konstantin Flavitsky, 1855. Judah was the one who suggested that Joseph be sold ...
In the biblical Joseph narrative, when Joseph, having settled in Egypt, asks his brothers to bring Benjamin to him, he takes Simeon hostage to ensure that they return. [12] According to classical rabbinical sources, Joseph chose Simeon to be the hostage because he was concerned that if Simeon was not separated from Levi, then Levi and Simeon ...
The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Reuben, which textual scholars attribute to various sources: one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist; [5] the first explanation given by the Bible is that the name refers to Yahweh having witnessed Leah's misery, concerning her status as the less-favourite of Jacob's wives, implying that the etymology of Reuben ...