orgins of samaritans

Submitted by sTs (United Arab Emirates), May 30, 2008 at 15:11

The Samaritans are descendants of Jacob through Joseph and his son

Numbers 26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

Numbers 26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.

The original Samaritans are from Issachar (some say from Joseph) and they were called Shimronites, They left the tribes (the twelve tribes) and dwelled in Gerzim during those times before Moses, and the word samaratine is derived from Shimronites,

So they are as old nation since even before Moses time

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