Quotes About Identity

And the name of Asherís daughter was Serah.

These were the clans of Asher, and their registration numbered 53,400.

the Jezerite clan from Jezer, and the Shillemite clan from Shillem.

These were the clans of Naphtali, and their registration numbered 45,400.

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.

and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.

Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.

And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”

These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon;

Elidad son of Chislon from the tribe of Benjamin;

Bukki son of Jogli, a leader from the tribe of Dan;

Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim;

Eli-zaphan son of Parnach, a leader from the tribe of Zebulun;

Ahihud son of Shelomi, a leader from the tribe of Asher;

But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry.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.

No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”

They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their fatherís clan.

Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—