Bible Verses About The Tribes of Israel

Ioseph shalbe a fruitefull bough, euen a fruitful bough by the well side: the small boughs shall runne vpon the wall.

And the archers grieued him, and shotte against him and hated him.

But his bowe abode strong, and the hands of his armes were strengthened, by the handes of the mighty God of Iaakob, of whom was the feeder appointed, by the stone of Israel,

Euen by the God of thy father, who shall helpe thee, and by the almightie, who shall blesse thee with heauenly blessinges from aboue, with blessings of the deepe, that lyeth beneath, with blessings of the brestes, and of the wombe.

The blessings of thy father shalbe stronger then the blessings of mine elders: vnto the ende of the hilles of the worlde they shall be on the head of Ioseph, and on the top of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Beniamin shall rauine as a wolfe: in the morning he shall deuoure the pray, and at night he shall deuide the spoyle.

All these are the twelue tribes of Israel, and thus their father spake vnto them, and blessed them: euery one of them blessed hee with a seuerall blessing.

Then the children of Israel tooke their iourney from Rameses to Succoth about sixe hundreth thousand men of foote, beside children.

And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelue, according to their names, grauen as signets, euerye one after his name, and they shall bee for the twelue tribes.

So the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, euen twelue after their names, grauen like signets euery one after his name according to the twelue tribes.

Take ye the summe of all the Congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, and housholdes of their fathers with the nomber of their names: to wit, all the males, man by man:

And with you shalbe men of euery tribe, such as are the heads of the house of their fathers.

And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you, of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur, the sonne of Shedeur:

Of Simeon, Shelumiel the sonne of Zurishaddai:

Of Iudah, Nahshon the sonne of Amminadab:

Of Issachar, Nethaneel, the sonne of Zuar:

Of Zebulun, Eliab, the sonne of Helon:

Of the children of Ioseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the sonne of Ammihud: of Manasseh, Gamliel, the sonne of Pedahzur:

Of Beiamin, Abida the sonne of Gideoni:

Of Dan, Ahiezer, the sonne of Ammishaddai:

Of Asher, Pagiel, the sonne of Ocran:

Of Gad, Eliasaph, the sonne of Deuel:

Of Naphtali, Ahira the sonne of Enan.

These were famous in the Congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, and heads ouer thousands in Israel.

These are the summes which Moses, and Aaron nombred, and the Princes of Israel, the twelue men, which were euery one for the house of their fathers.