Quotes about Israel
But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.
— Genesis 48:14
So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
— Genesis 48:20
Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
— Genesis 48:21
Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
— Genesis 49:16
Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
— Genesis 49:24
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”
— Genesis 49:27
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
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
— Genesis 50:2
And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
— Genesis 50:25
These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
— Exodus 1:1
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
— Exodus 1:3
Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
— Exodus 1:4