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498: 31: 570: 1122: 1156: 541:, its neighbour and a tribe that traditionally was seen as having many scholars, whereby Zebulun would financially support Issachar's devotion to study and teaching of the Torah, in exchange for a share of the spiritual reward from such learning; the terms 556:
The partnership between Issachar and Zebulun is in an ideological dispute between those who believe that conditions and trade can be made in the post-mortem wage and those who say that the wages of the next world cannot be traded
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to make him king were 50,000 fully armed men of Zebulun with no double heart, who brought with them, as sign of their hearty allegiance, bounteous supplies of meat and drink to celebrate the accession of their new ruler. When
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are descended from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, probably Zevulun. Kara stated that the Druze share many of the same beliefs as Jews, and that he has genetic evidence to prove that the Druze were descended from Jews.
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in the house of the Lord. Mockery and ridicule met the emissaries of the reformer; yet some were true to the religion of their fathers, and, even from far away Zebulun, went up to
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At the division of the land of Israel among the seven tribes not yet provided for, the lot of Zebulun was third. The tribe's territory started with Sarid (
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came to be used by Jews for anyone engaged in such a relationship. More recent Christian scholarship, as expressed for example in translations such as the
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According to the Torah, the Tribe of Zebulun plays an important part in the early history of Israel. At the census of the tribes in the Desert of
1135: 724: 221: 379:, Biblical scholars believe the tribe to have been regarded by the text's authors as a part of the original Israelite confederation. 731:. Zebulun's boundaries have not been made out. Of the nineteen proper names that the book of Joshua gives to guide us, only 852: 1160: 1182: 1177: 30: 172: 628:, after 24,000 men were slain for their crime, a second census was taken; Zebulun numbered 60,500 fighting men. 214: 1140: 788: 308:
allocated the land among the twelve tribes. The territory Zebulun was allocated was at the southern end of
780: 739:, seven miles northwest of Nazareth) can be identified with certainty, although the archaeological site 1187: 517:. Traditionally this has been interpreted as referring to the "rod of the scribe", an object that in 207: 550: 574: 289: 22: 647:, the tribe is specially singled out as having "offered their lives to death in the region of 1131: 275: 755:
and the sea, as far as the Lake of Genesareth. To its northwest lay Asher, to the southeast
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of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. With Leah as a
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and with them made up the vanguard of the line of march. Among the spies sent by
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the son of Parnach was chosen to represent Zebulun at the division of the
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Following the completion of the conquest of 288:, "dwelling; habitation; home") was one of the 215: 252: 222: 208: 1097:"MK Kara: Druze are Descended from Jews" 568: 496: 344:, the tribe consisted of descendants of 723:19:10), which is supposed to have been 714: 1170: 1130: 617:the son of Sodi represented Zebulun. 483: 481: 478: 476: 473: 445: 443: 441: 439: 437: 411: 400: 393: 391: 389: 699:, he invited all Israel to keep the 564: 356:, from whom it took its name. 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Index

Tribes of Israel

Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Dan
Naphtali
Gad
Asher
Issachar
Zebulun
Joseph
Manasseh
Ephraim
Benjamin
Caleb
Keni
Rechab
Jerahmeel
Leaders
Israelites
Ten Lost Tribes
Jews
Samaritans
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