Asher

and Le'ah said, "How happy I am! Women will say I am happy!" and called him Asher [happy].

And the sons of Zilpah Le'ah's slave-girl were Gad and Asher. These were Ya'akov's sons, born to him in Paddan-Aram.

The children of Asher: Yimnah, Yishvah, Yishvi, B'ri'ah, and their sister Serach. The sons of B'ri'ah were Hever and Malki'el.

"Asher's food is rich -he will provide food fit for a king.

Dan, Naftali, Gad and Asher.

From Asher, Pag'i'el the son of 'Okhran;

Descendants of Asher 41,500

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.

On the eleventh day was Pag'i'el the son of 'Okhran, leader of the descendants of Asher.

Over the company of the tribe of the descendants of Asher was Pag'i'el the son of 'Okhran.

from the tribe of Asher, S'tur the son of Mikha'el;

The descendants of Asher, by their families: of Yimnah, the family of the Yimnah; of Yishvi, the family of the Yishvi; and of B'ri'ah, the family of the B'ri'i.

The name of Asher's daughter was Serach.

These were the families of the descendants of Asher, according to those of them that were counted, 53,400.

from the tribe of the descendants of Asher, a leader, Achihud the son of Shlomi;

while these are to stand on Mount 'Eival for the curse: Re'uven, Gad, Asher, Z'vulun, Dan and Naftali.

Of Asher he said: "May Asher be most blessed of sons, may he be the favorite among his brothers and bathe his feet in oil.

The border of M'nasheh began at Asher and went to Mikhm'tat, which is across from Sh'khem; next the border went along to the right, to the people of 'Ein-Tapuach.

Southward it was Efrayim's, northward it was M'nasheh's, and the sea was its border; while to the north they extended to Asher, and on the east to Yissakhar.

In Asher and Yissakhar, M'nasheh had Beit-Sh'an and its villages; Yivle'am and its villages; and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, of 'Ein-Dor and its villages, of Ta'anakh and its villages, and of Megiddo and its villages - three districts in all.

The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the descendants of Asher according to their families.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Westward the border turned to Aznot-Tavor and went out from there to Hukok, reaching to Z'vulun on the south, Asher on the west and Y'hudah at the Yarden toward the east.

The descendants of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribes of Yissakhar, Asher, Naftali and the half-tribe of M'nasheh in Bashan.