Issachar

Le'ah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my slave-girl to my husband." So she called him Yissakhar [hire, reward].

The sons of Le'ah were Re'uven Ya'akov's firstborn, Shim'on, Levi, Y'hudah, Yissakhar and Z'vulun.

The sons of Yissakhar: Tola, Puvah, Yov and Shimron.

"Yissakhar is a strong donkey lying down in the sheep sheds.

Yissakhar, Z'vulun, Binyamin,

From Yissakhar, N'tan'el the son of Tzu'ar;

Descendants of Yissakhar 54,400

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.

On the second day N'tan'el the son of Tzu'ar, leader of Yissakhar, presented his offering.

Over the company of the tribe of the descendants of Yissakhar was N'tan'el the son of Tzu'ar.

from the tribe of Yissakhar, Yig'al the son of Yosef;

The descendants of Yissakhar, by their families, were: of Tola, the family of the Tola'i; of Puvah, the family of the Puni;

These were the families of Yissakhar, according to those counted of them, 64,300.

from the tribe of the descendants of Yissakhar, a leader, Palti'el the son of 'Azan;

"These are the ones who are to stand on Mount G'rizim and bless the people after you have crossed the Yarden: Shim'on, Levi, Y'hudah, Yissakhar, Yosef and Binyamin;

Of Z'vulun he said: "Rejoice, Z'vulun, as you go forth, and you, Yissakhar, in your tents.

The fourth lot came out for Yissakhar, for the descendants of Yissakhar according to their families.

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

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.

Out of the tribe of Yissakhar: Kishyon with its surrounding open land, Dovrat with its surrounding open land,

The princes of Yissakhar were with D'vorah, Yissakhar, along with Barak; into the valley they rushed forth behind him. Among the divisions of Re'uven they made great resolutions in their hearts.

After Avimelekh there arose to save Isra'el Tola the son of Pu'ah, the son of Dodo, from the tribe of Yissakhar. He lived in Shamir, in the hills of Efrayim.

Y'hoshafat the son of Paruach, in Yissakhar;

Ba'sha the son of Achiyah, from the descendants of Yissakhar, conspired against him; and Ba'sha attacked him at Gib'ton, which belonged to the P'lishtim; for at the time Nadav and all Isra'el were besieging Gib'ton.