1 Chronicles 2:1

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These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

“Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob;
And listen to Israel your father.

Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has

seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”

Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

“Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence,

Because you went up to your father’s bed;

Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;

These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

These then were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;

Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one with his household: