Jacob’s tenth son and Leah’s sixth and last, named from a verb of dwelling or honouring: now my husband will honor me, yizbeleni, because I have borne him six sons (Genesis 30:20, already on these pages). ⭐ Jacob’s oracle sends him to the coast: Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of seas; he shall be a shore for ships, and his flank toward Sidon (Genesis 49:13, already on these pages) — a seafaring blessing for a tribe whose allotment in Joshua 19 (not yet on these pages) is in fact inland Galilee. ⚠ At Deuteronomy 27:13 he is the only son of a wife stationed on Mount Ebal for the curse, beside Reuben and the four sons of the handmaids; Leah’s first and last sons stand together there, and the text gives no reason.