The 12 tribes of Israel, named after Jacob's sons, are central to the Hebrew Bible narrative. Scholars question the ...

The twelve tribes of Israel, therefore, collectively carry the name of their father. Jacob had twelve sons with his four wives. With Leah, he had Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon.

Jacob was renamed Israel when God appeared to him when he was leaving Padn-Aram and blessed him. Jacob produced twelve sons, each of whom became the father of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

The Book of Genesis tells the story of Jacob and his 12 sons, who formed the basis of the 12 tribes of Israel. When famine struck the land of Canaan ...

Nevertheless, they were perpetually aware that Egypt was exile, that their real homeland was the Land of Israel (still called Canaan). Thus when Jacob was on his death-bed, he commanded his sons ...