A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout.

There are six minor judges and six major judges ; this brings the total number of judges to twelve, the same number as there are tribes of Israel.

The present division of the oracles results in a total of twelve books of minor prophets — a number parallelling the sons of Jacob who became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.

The 3rd century saw the emergence of a number of large West Germanic tribes: Alamanni, Franks, Bavarii, Chatti, Saxons, Frisii, Sicambri, and Thuringii.

In the 5th century, the Völkerwanderung ( or Germanic migrations ) brought a number of Barbarian tribes into the failing Roman Empire.

Different tribes number the heaven differently, with as few as two and as many as fourteen levels.

In the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age a number of possible population movements occurred, with the Bryges being settled in areas of southern Albania-northwestern Greece and Illyrian tribes moved into central Albania.

Bands and tribes consist of small number of related individuals.

" Cotton was woven and dyed for clothing ; wheat, rice, and a variety of vegetables and fruits were cultivated ; and a number of animals, including the humped bull, were domesticated ," as well as " tribes domesticated fowl for fighting ".

Among the later subdivisions that have arisen are such entities as phyla, families, and tribes, as well as any number of ranks with prefixes ( superfamilies, subfamilies, etc .).

Mindanao has been the seat of two sultanates namely the Sultanate of Sulu and the Sultanate of Maguindanao along with the most hispanized city in Asia, a considerable number of Buddhist and Taoist temples and the indigenous tribes known as Lumad people which makes it more diverse.

Lithuania was ruled during the early 13th century by a number of dukes and princes presiding over various fiefdoms and tribes.

The production portrayed the conflict as a struggle between different value systems, which included not only the Pequot, but a number of other Native American tribes, most of which allied with the English.

It is a syncretistic church incorporating elements of Native spiritual practice from a number of different tribes as well as symbolic elements from Christianity.

The discovery of short runic inscriptions on a great number of articles for common personal use proves that the knowledge and use of the runic script was generally spread among the old Turkic tribes.

Although a significant number of Hinawi tribes recognized him as imam, the public neither elected him nor acclaimed him as such.

Although European navigators visited the islands and explored their coastlines thereafter, little was known of the inhabitants by Europeans until the 1870s, when Russian anthropologist Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai made a number of expeditions to New Guinea, spending several years living among native tribes, and described their way of life in a comprehensive treatise.

Some tribes practiced polygamy with the aim of increasing the number of offspring.

The means by which the Pictish confederation formed in Late Antiquity from a number of tribes is unknown, although there is speculation that reaction to the growth of the Roman Empire was a factor.

Natives of the Arabian Peninsula, many Qataris are descended from a number of migratory tribes that came to Qatar in the 18th century to escape the harsh conditions of the neighboring areas of Nejd and Al-Hasa.

One of his first reforms was to add 100 new members to the Senate from the conquered Etruscan tribes, bringing the total number of senators to 300.

Philo of Alexandria, who relied extensively on the Septuagint, says that the number of scholars was chosen by selecting six scholars from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Due to the length of these routes and the small number of airlines flying to the islands, fares have traditionally been relatively expensive, although cheaper for locals than visitors.

Drum kits are traditionally categorised by the number of drums, ignoring cymbals and other instruments.

In science fiction, a large number of the practitioners and other professionals in the field, not only writers but editors and publishers, traditionally have themselves come from and participate in science fiction fandom, from Ray Bradbury to Harlan Ellison to Patrick Neilsen Hayden to Toni Weisskopf ; and the " fan " vs. " pro " dualism does not exist in the way it does in the media entertainment industry.

A number of regions have local specialties, many of which, like Weißbier, are more traditionally brewed ales.

Negative commandments ( traditionally 365 in number ) forbid a specific action, and violations create a distance from God.

The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name ( Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, Tohoku University, etc .).

Depending on the evaluation procedures, a number of distinctions are traditionally made in NLP evaluation.

This seems to them to be inconsistent with the way other languages are traditionally considered, where number is orthogonal to gender ( according to the critics, a Meinhof-style analysis would give Ancient Greek 9 genders ).

* A smaller number, such as the Romaniote Jews, traditionally rule according to the Jerusalem Talmud over the Babylonian Talmud.

The size of bids is based on the point scale and number of decks used ; traditionally, points are in multiples of 10, thus a minimum opening bid might be agreed to be 100 or 250.

This work is traditionally cited with the initials AT ( for Adam and Tannery ) followed by a volume number in Roman numerals ; thus AT VII refers to Oeuvres de Descartes volume 7.

This work is traditionally cited with the initials HR ( for Haldane and Ross ) followed by a volume number in Roman numerals ; thus HRII refers to volume 2 of this edition.

Beyond the traditionally recognized families of Southeast Asia, a number of possible broader relationships have been suggested.

However, a number of significant but politically sensitive areas have not been extensively excavated, including Temple mount, the site where the Temple is traditionally said to have been located.

It is important to note that ancient precedent existed for alternative theories and developments which prefigured later discoveries in the area of physics and mechanics ; but in the absence of a strong empirical tradition, dominance of the Aristotelian school, and in light of the limited number of works to survive translation in an era when many books were lost to warfare, such developments remained obscure for centuries and are traditionally held to have had little effect on the re-discovery of such phenomena ; whereas the invention of the printing press made the wide dissemination of such incremental advances of knowledge commonplace.

* Cricket is traditionally one of the most popular sports in The Hague, with a number of strong teams from the Dutch league located there.

However, modern grammarians recognize that words traditionally grouped together as adverbs serve a number of different functions.

While not observed nationally throughout the United States, a number of traditionally ethnic French cities and regions in the country have notable celebrations.

While Australian sparkling Shiraz traditionally have had some sweetness, a number of Australian winemakers also make a full-bodied sparkling dry Shiraz, that contains the complexity and sometimes earthy notes that are normally found in still wine.

The measurement of an exponential bacterial growth curve in batch culture was traditionally a part of the training of all microbiologists ; the basic means requires bacterial enumeration ( cell counting ) by direct and individual ( microscopic, flow cytometry ), direct and bulk ( biomass ), indirect and individual ( colony counting ), or indirect and bulk ( most probable number, turbidity, nutrient uptake ) methods.

A number of traditionally accepted families, including ( Dialypetalanthaceae, Henriqueziaceae, Naucleaceae, and Theligonaceae ) are now included in Rubiaceae following molecular phylogenetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

Small town and rural support comes especially from the traditionally Protestant areas of northern Germany and Brandenburg ( with notable exceptions such as Western Pomerania where CDU leader Angela Merkel was re-elected in 2005 ) and a number of university towns.

The album was also preceded by its first single, " No Phone ", which hit number 13 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart ; the song covered the ubiquitous and privacy-invading use of cell phones, and was described by Jeremy Mahadevan of the New Straits Times as " a traditionally minimalist Cake anthem, with a killer melody and, unique to this album, fairly extensive use of synths ".

Whitebait, the young of a number of species, are traditionally eaten fried as a starter.