דן was born in 2196. דן's father was יעקב ישראל and his mother is בלהה. His paternal grandparents were יצחק and רבקה. He is the oldest of two children. He has a brother named נפתלי. He had ten half-brothers and a half-sister, named ראובן, שמעון, לוי, יהודה, יששכר, זבולון, גד, אשר, יוסף, בנימין and דינה.
General Notes
Judge. Son of Bilhah, Rachel?אשs maid, and own brother to Naphtali. After the settlement in Canaan, the district assigned to the tribe of Dan was smal l inarea, but had an admirable situation, adjoining Ephraim, Benjamin, a nd Judah, parts of it beingn