Quotes about Heritage
Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”
— Genesis 48:9
Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
— Genesis 49:2
These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
— Genesis 49:28
He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
— Genesis 50:23
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
— Exodus 1:2
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
— Exodus 1:3
Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
— Exodus 1:4
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
— Exodus 1:5
Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
— Exodus 1:6
Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,
— Exodus 2:1
“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
— Exodus 4:5
I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
— Exodus 6:4