12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,
12,000 from the tribe of Levi,
12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,

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23 The sons of Leah: (A)Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

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14 These are the clans of the Simeonites, (A)22,200.

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And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. (A)And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him.

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14 The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father's house belonging to the Simeonites.

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22 Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, those of them who were listed, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

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16 These are the names of the (A)sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years.

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(A)“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons (B)of violence are their swords.

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18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:18 Issachar sounds like the Hebrew for wages, or hire

34 Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be (A)attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 29:34 Levi sounds like the Hebrew for attached

The Inheritance for Issachar

17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the people of Issachar, according to their clans.

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The Inheritance for Simeon

19 The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans, (A)and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah.

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11 Binding his foal to the vine
    and his donkey's colt to the choice vine,
he has washed his garments in wine
    and his vesture in the blood of grapes.

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