²⁸ Of the sons of Issachar -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

¹⁸ and Leah saith, `God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;' and she calleth his name Issachar.

¹³ And sons of Issachar: Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

¹⁴ Issacher `is' a strong ass, Crouching between the two folds;

¹⁵ And he seeth rest that `it is' good, And the land that `it is' pleasant, And he inclineth his shoulder to bear, And is to tribute a servant.

⁵ And those encamping by him `are of' the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar `is' Nethaneel son of Zuar;

⁶ and his host, and its numbered ones, `are' four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

²³ For no enchantment `is' against Jacob, Nor divination against Israel, At the time it is said of Jacob and Israel, What hath God wrought!

²⁴ Lo, the people as a lioness riseth, And as a lion he lifteth himself up, He lieth not down till he eateth prey, And blood of pierced ones doth drink.'

²⁵ And Balak saith unto Balaam, `Neither pierce it at all, nor bless it at all;'

²³ Sons of Issachar by their families; `of' Tola `is' the family of the Tolaite; of Pua the family of the Punite;

²⁴ of Jashub the family of the Jashubite; of Shimron the family of the Shimronite.

²⁵ These `are' families of Issachar, by their numbered ones, four and sixty thousand and three hundred.