Dan Dan's Flag Judah Judah's Flag Reuben Reuben's Flag Gad Gad's Flag Asher Asher's Flag Naphtali Naphtali's Flag Manasseh Manasseh's Flag Simeon Simeon's Flag Levi Levi's Flag Issachar Issachar's Flag Zebulun Zebulun's Flag Joseph Joseph's Flag Benjamin Benjamin's Flag

Members of the Land

Colossians 3 has an interesting list that's prefaced as being related to land, though I'm not sure exactly how the list functions as a whole relative to land. Anyhow, the list maps to our 13 friends.

Tribe Member Scripture
Judah Immorality

60 Colossians 3:5-7
49 5Therefore mortify your members in the land: immorality, uncleanness, intemperate desires, evil lusts, and covetousness; for these are idolatry,
6and it is because of these things, that the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
7In the past, you also lived among these things, and you were perverted by them.

Reuben Uncleanness
Gad Intemperate desires
Asher Evil lusts
Naphtali Covetousness
Manasseh For these are idolatry and bring wrath...
Simeon Anger

60 Colossians 3:8
8But now put off from you all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, foul conversation.

Levi Wrath
Issachar Malice
Zebulun Blasphemy, Foul conversation
Joseph Do not lie, put away old man, put on new man...

60 Colossians 3:9-11
9Do not lie to each other, but put away the old life with all its practices;
10and put on the new life which is renewed in knowledge, after the pattern in which it was originally created,
11where there is neither Jew nor Aramean, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Greek nor barbarian, slave nor freeman; but Messiah is all and in all men.
Benjamin Jew nor Aramean
Dan Messiah in all.

Notes on mappping

The two outtakes from the list occur at Manasseh and Joseph as we've seen so many times before. This, in conjunction with the way "anger" lands on Simeon, is the proof we're dealing with a tribal list.

There does appear to be an extra item in the list between Manasseh and Joseph, but it's not clear who would get two items or why. It looks like the extra item could work for Simeon or Zebulun, but there should eventually be a definite way to solve it.

Observations

Other than the obvious map of anger to Simeon I don't have many observations for this list right now. I wrote this page just to have a record. Will come back and study more in the future when I know the tribes better.

By Ryan Eaton
Posted Tuesday, Benjamin 19, 13000