ways in the Torah. The arrangement of the tribes around the dwelling of God in Numbers, for example, is affected by the mother of each tribal head as well as by the narrative accounts in Genesis and Exodus (see Chapter 21). In this respect the stories of the ancestors explained even the particular identity of the tribes of Israel. Cattle grazing on slopes of Israel In sum, Jacob was a deceiver when he lived at home and a deceiver when he lived away from home; he was still a deceiver when he returned