But he pulled his arm back, and his brother was born first. Then the midwife said, "So this is how you break your way out!" So he was named Perez.

(SEE 26:19)

"Judah, your brothers will praise you. You hold your enemies by the neck. Your brothers will bow down before you.

Judah will hold the royal scepter, And his descendants will always rule. Nations will bring him tribute And bow in obedience before him.

They presented their offerings in the following order: (Day: Tribe: Leader); 1st: Judah: Nahshon son of Amminadab; 2nd: Issachar: Nethanel son of Zuar; 3rd: Zebulun: Eliab son of Helon; 4th: Reuben: Elizur son of Shedeur; 5th: Simeon: Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; 6th: Gad: Eliasaph son of Deuel; 7th: Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud; 8th: Manasseh: Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; 9th: Benjamin: Abidan son of Gideoni; 10th: Dan: Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; 11th: Asher: Pagiel son of Ochran; 12th: Naphtali: Ahira son of Enan. The offerings each one brought were identical: one silver bowl weighing 50 ounces and one silver basin weighing 30 ounces, by the official standard, both of them full of flour mixed with oil for the grain offering; one gold dish weighing 4 ounces, full of incense; one young bull, one ram, and a one-year-old lamb, for the burnt offering; one goat for the sin offering; and two bulls, five rams, five goats, and five one-year-old lambs, for the fellowship offering.

and each time they moved, they were in the same order. Those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Judah started out first, company by company, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.