Jacob’s eighth son, the second born to Leah’s maid Zilpah, and named for happiness: Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy, be-oshri … ishruni, Leah says (Genesis 30:13, already on these pages) — the root of ashrei, the happy is the man that opens the Psalter. ⭐ Jacob’s oracle keeps him well fed: from Asher, his bread shall be rich, and he shall give royal delicacies (Genesis 49:20, already on these pages). ⚠ At Deuteronomy 27:13 he is the third of the six tribes stationed on Mount Ebal for the curse; Moses’ own blessing of him, at Deuteronomy 33:24–25 (not yet on these pages), gives him a foot dipped in oil and bars of iron and bronze — the metal that may not touch the altar of 27:5.