The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
- KJV And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
- BSB The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
- NKJV The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
- NASB And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
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Quick answer
The sons of Zebulun are listed among the family of Jacob entering Egypt. It records the descendants who would become one of Israel's twelve tribes.
Overview
This continues the census of Jacob's household migrating to Egypt during the famine. Zebulun was the sixth and last son of Leah, and these names head one of the tribes later allotted territory in the Promised Land. Such genealogies anchor God's covenant promises in real, traceable families, the line through which the Messiah would ultimately come.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Num 1:9Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
- Num 26:26–27The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
- Num 1:30–31Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Deut 33:18–19About Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.
- 1 Chr 2:1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
- Gen 30:19–20Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
- Gen 49:13“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
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