Q&A#105 Numbering the Tribes
February 15, 2019
Alastair Roberts
Today's question: "Could you clarify for lay readers of the Bible (who might be getting confused or forgetting things from one book to another) by giving an overview of how the tribes of Israel are numbered as twelve, and differences between how the tribes are numbered (or in how they are named) throughout the biblical narrative?"
See also my earlier video on the exclusion of Dan in Revelation 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUB0AagCBQ
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