Eliab

Family: Zebulun · Role: tribal prince · First appears: Numbers 1

In Numbers 1, Eliab is identified as the son of Helon. In Numbers 7, he is a tribal prince of Zebulun who worships God and offers on the third day of the altar’s dedication, when the princes of Israel present twelve successive offerings. The record names him as “Eliab the son of Helon.”

In Numbers 16, Dathan and Abiram are called the sons of Eliab. Numbers 26 also lists Eliab as a son of Pallu and names Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram as sons of Eliab; Deuteronomy 11 identifies Dathan and Abiram as sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, recalling that the earth swallowed them and their households.

Relationship record

Life events

• The princes of Israel dedicate the altar through twelve successive offerings.(Numbers 7 · 📍 altar)
  • With: Nahshon Nethaneel Elizur Shelumiel Eliasaph Elishama Gamaliel Abidan Ahiezer Pagiel Ahira
  • “This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:”

Numbers 1

• parent: Helon “Eliab the son of Helon.”

Numbers 7

• deity: God “On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:”

Numbers 16

• child: Dathan “Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:”
• child: Abiram “Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:”

Numbers 26

• parent: Pallu “And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.”
• child: Nemuel “And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram.”

Deuteronomy 11

• parent: Reuben (Eliab is identified as the son of Reuben.) “And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:”

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Extracted from the original text of The Five Books of Moses. Made with Rho MD.