'Tribes' in the Bible

Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.

“So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: officials for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.

Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.

You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.

“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

For Yahweh your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes to stand and minister in His name from now on.

“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

And these tribes will stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

“All of you are standing today before the Lord your God—your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel,

and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

So He became King in Jeshurunwhen the leaders of the people gatheredwith the tribes of Israel.