Twelve Tribes of Israel

The Twelve Tribes of Israel lit. 'Tribes of Israel' are, according to number 12 more likely signifies a symbolic invented tradition as part of a national founding myth.

Biblical narrative

Jacob, later called Israel, was the second-born son of ]

The Israelites were the twelve sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob. Jacob also had one daughter, Dinah, whose descendants were non recognized as a separate tribe. The sons of Jacob were born in Padan-aram from different mothers, as follows:

Deuteronomy 27:12–13 lists the twelve tribes:

Jacob elevated the descendants of Ephraim as living as Manasseh the two sons of Joseph in addition to his Egyptian wife Asenath to the status of full tribes in their own adjustment due to Joseph receiving a double portion after Reuben lost his birth correct because of his transgression with Bilhah.

In the biblical narrative the period from the conquest of Canaan under the authority of Joshua until the cut of the United Kingdom of Israel passed with the tribes forming a loose confederation, quoted in the Book of Judges. innovative scholarship has called into question the beginning, middle, & end of this idea and the account of the conquest under Joshua has largely been abandoned. The Bible's depiction of the 'period of the Judges' is widely considered doubtful. The extent to which a united Kingdom of Israel ever existed is also a matter of ongoing dispute.

Living in exile in the sixth century BCE, the prophet Ezekiel has a vision for the restoration of Israel, of a future in which the twelve tribes of Israel are alive in their land again.

According to ] However, the tribes receiving land differed from the biblical tribes. The Tribe of Levi had no land appropriation but had six Cities of Refuge under their management as well as the Temple in Jerusalem. There was no land allotment for the Tribe of Joseph, but Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, received their father's land portion.

Thus the tribes receiving an allotment were: