Twelve Tribes of Israel
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title:
Twelve Tribes of Israel
text:
The Twelve Tribes of Israel are, according to Hebrew scriptures, the descendants of the biblical patriarch Jacob, who collectively form the Israelite nation. The tribes were through his twelve sons through his wives, Leah and Rachel, and his concubines, Bilhah and Zilpah. In modern scholarship, there is skepticism as to whether there ever were twelve Israelite tribes, with the use of the number 12 thought more likely to signify a symbolic tradition as part of a national founding myth, although s
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National origin story in the Hebrew Bible
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_of_Israel
date created:
2005-08-07T19:38:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T16:17:15Z
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