Hebrew tribes descended from the 12 sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
1These twelve together may be considered the twelve tribes borne by Rachel.
2Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to come.
3On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
4There were twelve tribes of Ishmael and twelve disciples of the Hebrew Reformer.
5Nor did it originate with the twelve tribes of Israel.
6Three of the twelve tribes have some settlements on islands in the sea, though.
7In all other respects, the founding populations of the twelve tribes started out identical.
8The number of the oxen corresponded to the twelve constellations, and to the twelve tribes.
9The foundation stones of heaven and the pearly gates are named for the twelve tribes.
10Mutation B is equally likely to crop up in any one of the twelve tribes.
11But there is another interpretation of the phrase "the twelve tribes."
12Jacob will bless the twelve tribes, and each blessing will be different from every other.
13Y: We divided them into twelve tribes or nations.
14Perhaps, too, the number of barrels was intended, again, as symbolical of the twelve tribes.
15Jacob had twelve sons from whom descended twelve tribes.
16The portions of the twelve tribes, of the sanctuary, of the city, and of the prince.
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