1.Reuben was Jacob’s firstborn. He was the son of Leah, Jacob’s first wife. 2) Simeon was next, and he was also a son of Leah. 3) Levi was the third of Jacob and Leah’s children. 4) Judah was the next. After bearing Judah, Leah stopped bearing children. 5) Dan was born to Jacob by Bilhah, his wife Rachel’s handmaid. It was common practice in that day for a barren wife to give her servant to her husband to bear children in her name. 6) Naphtali was the next child, also through Bilhah. 7) Gad was number seven. He was the child of Jacob and Zilpah, the handmaid of Leah. 8) Asher was next. He was the second son of Zilpah. 9) Issachar was another son granted to Leah. 10) Zebulun was the next child, Leah’s sixth. 11) Dinah was Jacob’s only daughter, and her mother was Leah. 12) Joseph was Jacob’s twelfth child and Rachel’s first, as God opened her womb and enabled her to conceive. 13) Benjamin was Jacob’s last child. His mother, Rachel, who died during labor, named him Ben-Oni, which means “son of my trouble,” but Jacob renamed him Benjamin, which means “son of my right hand.” 

Jacob's Ladder