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Righteous Patriarch Gad

Also known as Gad son of Jacob

The seventh son of the Patriarch Jacob and the first by Zilpah, and forefather of the tribe of Gad, which received its inheritance east of the Jordan.

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The seventh son of the Patriarch Jacob and the first by Zilpah, and forefather of the tribe of Gad, which received its inheritance east of the Jordan.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints; Genesis 29–30, 49