Israel

Israel, also named Jacob, was the son of Isaac, the father of the twelve tribes of Israel, and a key patriarch of the Jewish people.

The name Israel means “who prevails with God”

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Summary

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Genesis 25:26; referred to as Israel (Aramiac יִשְׂרָאֵל), Jacob (יַעֲקֹב), Jeshurun (יְשֻׁרוּן), Israelite (יִשְׂרְאֵלִי), Israelitess (יִשְׂרְאֵלִית), Israelite (Ἰσραήλ), Jacob (Ἰακώβ), or Israel (Ἰσραηλίτης); son of Isaac and Rebekah; a brother of Esau; husband of Rachel and Leah, with concubines Zilpah and Bilhah; father of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Dinah, Joseph and Benjamin.

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Jacob was the younger twin son of Isaac and Rebekah. He struggled with his twin brother Esau in the womb and was born holding Esau’s heel (Genesis 25:21–26). God told Rebekah that the boys symbolized two nations and that the older son would serve the younger (Genesis 25:23).

Isaac favored Esau, who loved the outdoors, while Rebekah preferred Jacob, who enjoyed staying at home. One day, Esau came back very hungry from hunting, and Jacob traded him some red stew for his inheritance rights (Genesis 25:27–34; see Hebrews 12:16). Later, Isaac asked Esau to prepare wild game for him to eat so he could bless him (Genesis 27:1–4; compare 25:28). However, Rebekah sent Jacob to trick Isaac into giving him the blessing instead, and her plan worked (Genesis 27:5–29). Jacob's deception was soon discovered (Genesis 27:30–35). But legally, valid blessings were unchangeable promises (27:33). So Isaac gave Esau a lesser blessing (Genesis 27:36–40). Esau planned to kill Jacob (27:41). Rebekah persuaded Isaac to send Jacob to her brother Laban so Jacob could marry within the family (Genesis 27:42–46).

Isaac gave the covenant promises to Jacob and sent him to Haran (Genesis 28:1–5). On the way, God appeared to Jacob in a dream and confirmed the promises of land and descendants given to Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 28:10–15). Jacob worshiped the Lord and named the place Bethel, meaning "house of God."

In Haran, Jacob worked for his uncle Laban (Genesis 29–31). Jacob loved Laban's daughter Rachel and worked seven years to marry her. However, Laban tricked him by giving him his older daughter Leah on the wedding night. Jacob then worked another seven years for Rachel and six more years to build his own flocks (Genesis 30:25–43; see also 31:38–42). Despite many challenges, he had thirteen children and became very wealthy.

After twenty years, God told Jacob to return to Canaan (Genesis 31:3). Jacob feared Laban and his sons (Genesis 31:1–2). So, he organized his caravan and left while Laban was away (31:4–21). Laban chased after him, but God stopped him from harming Jacob (Genesis 31:22–24, 29). Instead, Laban scolded Jacob for leaving secretly and accused him of stealing his idols (Genesis 31:25–30). Jacob allowed Laban to search his tents, but the idols were not found (Genesis 31:33–35). Jacob then became angry (Genesis 31:36–42). Although their conflict was unresolved, the two men made a peace agreement (Genesis 31:43–54). The location became a lasting boundary between Israel and Aram.

Jacob now faced Esau and God. When Esau came with four hundred men, Jacob asked for God's protection and sent gifts to make peace with his brother, whom he had not seen for many years (Genesis 32:3–21). That night, in an event symbolizing his life, Jacob wrestled with a man who dislocated his hip and gave him the blessing he wanted (Genesis 32:22–32). God also changed his name to Israel, meaning "God fights."

In the morning, Jacob met Esau, and they reconciled (Genesis 33:1–11). Esau was kind and forgiving, and Jacob shared some of his blessings. Esau then returned to Seir, while Jacob continued to Canaan. In Shechem, Jacob bought land and built an altar (Genesis 33:18–20). He then moved to Bethel and removed all foreign idols from his household (Genesis 35:1–8). God reaffirmed Jacob's new name, Israel, and renewed his promises of land and descendants (Genesis 35:9–15).

Jacob favored Rachel and her son Joseph (Genesis 37:1–3). Joseph's brothers grew jealous and hated him. Joseph's dreams made them angrier (Genesis 37:4–11), so they sold him as a slave (Genesis 37:12–28). For over twenty years, Jacob thought Joseph was dead. Jacob only learned Joseph was alive after sending Benjamin to Egypt with Judah. Joseph then helped his family during the famine (Genesis 43:1–14; 45:24–28). Jacob felt renewed and moved to Egypt. He joyfully reunited with Joseph in Goshen (Genesis 46:28–30) and thrived for seventeen more years.

When Jacob was near death at age 147, he planned for his family's future. He made Joseph promise to bury him in Canaan (Genesis 47:29–31; 49:29–32). He gave Joseph’s sons his main blessing and placed Ephraim, the younger son, first (Genesis 48:1–20). He assured the family they would return to Canaan (Genesis 48:21–22). Then he blessed each of his sons and predicted the future of their descendants (Genesis 49:1–28). He died and was buried in the cave of Machpelah, accompanied by his sons and a large Egyptian procession (Genesis 49:33–50:13). His death marked the end of the patriarchal age and the start of Israel’s growth as a nation in Egypt until they returned to live in the promised land (see Exodus—Joshua).

The name "Jacob" became another name for the nation of Israel (see Numbers 23:7, 21; 24:5; Hosea 12:2). God called the nation to serve him as their ancestors did (Hosea 12:3–14). He promised Israel the same love he showed Jacob (Malachi 1:2). He also promised that a powerful leader would come from Jacob's descendants (Genesis 49:8–12; Numbers 24:17–19).

Passages for Further Study

Genesis 25:19–34; 27:1–35:29; 37:1–35; 42:1–4, 29–38; 43:1–13; 45:25–50:14; Exodus 1:1–5; Numbers 23:7–10, 20–23; 24:5–9, 17–19; Deuteronomy 26:5; Joshua 24:4, 32; Hosea 12:2–14; Malachi 1:2; John 4:5–6, 12; Acts 7:8–16; Romans 9:10–13; Hebrews 11:8–9, 20–21

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Isaac

Mother

Rebekah

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Bilhah Leah Rachel Zilpah

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Esau

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3,504 verses

Includes 926 verses that refer to Israel without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

  1. Numbers 21:24יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.
  2. Numbers 21:25יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
  3. Numbers 21:27Referred to, not named
    That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
  4. Numbers 21:30Referred to, not named
    But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
  5. Numbers 21:31יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
  6. Numbers 21:32Referred to, not named
    After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
  7. Numbers 21:33Referred to, not named
    Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
  8. Numbers 21:35Referred to, not named
    So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.
  9. Numbers 22:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.
  10. Numbers 22:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,
  11. Numbers 22:3יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    …and Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous. Indeed, Moab dreaded the Israelites.
  12. Numbers 23:7יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel; יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
  13. Numbers 23:8Referred to, not named
    How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?
  14. Numbers 23:9Referred to, not named
    For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
  15. Numbers 23:10יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel; יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
  16. Numbers 23:21יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel; יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.
  17. Numbers 23:22Referred to, not named
    God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
  18. Numbers 23:23יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel; יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
  19. Numbers 24:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not seek omens as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
  20. Numbers 24:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,
  21. Numbers 24:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel; יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!
  22. Numbers 24:7Referred to, not named
    Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
  23. Numbers 24:8Referred to, not named
    God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
  24. Numbers 24:9Referred to, not named
    He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
  25. Numbers 24:14Referred to, not named
    Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”
  26. Numbers 24:17יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel; יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.
  27. Numbers 24:18יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Edom will become a possession, as will Seir, his enemy; but Israel will perform with valor.
  28. Numbers 24:19יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    A ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”
  29. Numbers 25:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
  30. Numbers 25:3יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.
  31. Numbers 25:4יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
  32. Numbers 25:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
  33. Numbers 25:6יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
  34. Numbers 25:8יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    …followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
  35. Numbers 25:11יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.
  36. Numbers 25:13יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    It will be a covenant of permanent priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
  37. Numbers 26:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”
  38. Numbers 26:3Referred to, not named
    So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued the instruction,
  39. Numbers 26:4יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Take a census of the men twenty years of age or older, as the LORD has commanded Moses.” And these were the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt:
  40. Numbers 26:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. These were the descendants of Reuben: The Hanochite clan from Hanoch, the Palluite clan from Pallu,
  41. Numbers 26:51יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
  42. Numbers 26:62יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
  43. Numbers 26:63יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These were the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.
  44. Numbers 26:64יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
  45. Numbers 27:8יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Furthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
  46. Numbers 27:11יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”
  47. Numbers 27:12יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
  48. Numbers 27:20יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.
  49. Numbers 27:21יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who will seek counsel for him before the LORD by the judgment of the Urim. At his command, he and all the Israelites with him—the entire congregation—will go out and come in.”
  50. Numbers 28:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My food offerings, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
  51. Numbers 29:40יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So Moses spoke all this to the Israelites just as the LORD had commanded him.
  52. Numbers 30:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
  53. Numbers 31:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
  54. Numbers 31:4יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”
  55. Numbers 31:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.
  56. Numbers 31:9יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.
  57. Numbers 31:12יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  58. Numbers 31:16יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
  59. Numbers 31:30יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    From the Israelites’ half, take one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”
  60. Numbers 31:42יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
  61. Numbers 31:47יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
  62. Numbers 31:54יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.
  63. Numbers 32:4יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    …which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock—and your servants have livestock.”
  64. Numbers 32:7יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?
  65. Numbers 32:9יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
  66. Numbers 32:11יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
  67. Numbers 32:13יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
  68. Numbers 32:14יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
  69. Numbers 32:15Referred to, not named
    For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
  70. Numbers 32:17יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
  71. Numbers 32:18יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.
  72. Numbers 32:22יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    …then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.
  73. Numbers 32:28יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the family leaders of the tribes of Israel.
  74. Numbers 33:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These are the journeys of the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
  75. Numbers 33:3יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
  76. Numbers 33:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
  77. Numbers 33:38יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
  78. Numbers 33:40יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
  79. Numbers 33:51יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
  80. Numbers 34:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
  81. Numbers 34:13יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.
  82. Numbers 34:29יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
  83. Numbers 35:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.
  84. Numbers 35:8יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”
  85. Numbers 35:10יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
  86. Numbers 35:15יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
  87. Numbers 35:34יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”
  88. Numbers 36:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families and addressed them,
  89. Numbers 36:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    …saying, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, He also commanded him to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
  90. Numbers 36:3יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
  91. Numbers 36:4יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
  92. Numbers 36:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.
  93. Numbers 36:7יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
  94. Numbers 36:8יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
  95. Numbers 36:9יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”
  96. Numbers 36:13יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  97. Deuteronomy 1:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
  98. Deuteronomy 1:3יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
  99. Deuteronomy 1:8יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
  100. Deuteronomy 1:38יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.