וַיְהִי כְּמֵשִׁיב יָדוֹ, וְהִנֵּה יָצָא אָחִיו, וַתֹּאמֶר,
מַה-פָּרַצְתָּ
מַה-עָקַבְתָּ
עָלֶיךָ
פָּרֶץ
עֵקֶב
; וַיִּקְרָא שְׁמוֹ,
פָּרֶץ
יַעֲקֹב
. וְאַחַר יָצָא אָחִיו, אֲשֶׁר עַל-יָדוֹ הַשָּׁנִי; וַיִּקְרָא שְׁמוֹ,
זָרַח
אֱדוֹם.
Yehudah went down from his brothers. From Asher, from Gad, from Reuven, and from Yishmael. In modern jargon, he left from Lebanon, from the East bank of the Jordan river, and from the Sinai peninsula. Where does he arrive then? In the land of Cana'an, in the region of Beth Shemesh.
He turned to an Adullamite man. The ancient site of Adullam is south of Beth Shemesh.
And Yehudah saw a daughter of a Canaanite man, and he married her. The Cana'anim lived by the sea (Bamidbar 13:29).
He was at Chezib when she gave birth to him. Chezib is very close to Adullam, to the South-West of Beth Shemesh.
And he went up to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Chirah, the Adullamite, to Timnah. Timnah is close to Beth Shemesh also, to the North-West. And on the road to Timnah, the twin sons, Ya'akov and Edom, were conceived.
Altogether, Yehudah has five surviving sons, Shelah, Ya'akov and Edom, Shim'on and Levi. In the region of Beth Shemesh did Yehudah, the son of Avraham, live. Far away from his brothers, Asher, Gad, Reuven, and Yishmael. To the North of Timnah, is the region of Ya'akov, until Asher, until Gad, until Reuven. And to the South is the region of Edom, until Yishmael, which includes the Negev (previously Amaleq, Bamidbar 13:29). And the middle region, is for Shelah, Shim'on, and Levi. Shelah could be called Yehudah proper, but they would all be called Yehudah, or, if you prefer, Yitzchak.
The vision is for a "State", in the promised Land, up till the border of Asher, the border of Gad and Reuven, and the border of Yishmael, the Sinai peninsula. From this point of view, it seems clear what should happen. The "force of history" will compel us to "take responsibility," and to "own" the West-bank, to annex it. If you want, the "recreated" Yehudah will have the same number of tribes as Yisrael. It has the tribe of Asher, the southern half of the Asher of old, until the region of Chiram. It does not have the tribes of Reuven and Gad, but it does have Edom and the Negev, south of Yehudah-proper and west of Edom, in their stead. Modern-day Israel is on its way, without any intention whatsoever, in fact despite itself, to realize the pre-Torah vision of J, to complete the vision of Yehudah. A vision it did not know.
שִׁמְעוּ-זֹאת בֵּית-יַעֲקֹב, הַנִּקְרָאִים בְּשֵׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל, וּמִמֵּי יְהוּדָה, יָצָאוּ
הִשְׁמַעְתִּיךָ חֲדָשׁוֹת מֵעַתָּה, וּנְצֻרוֹת וְלֹא יְדַעְתָּם. עַתָּה נִבְרְאוּ וְלֹא מֵאָז, וְלִפְנֵי-יוֹם וְלֹא שְׁמַעְתָּם--פֶּן-תֹּאמַר, הִנֵּה יְדַעְתִּין. גַּם לֹא-שָׁמַעְתָּ, גַּם לֹא יָדַעְתָּ--גַּם, מֵאָז לֹא-פִתְּחָה אָזְנֶךָ
(Yeshayah 48:1,6-8)