Debunking The 12 Tribes Chart

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For decades, a chart has circulated in camps, churches, and street corners claiming to identify exactly where the 12 tribes of Israel are today. It says African-Americans are Judah, Jamaicans are Benjamin, Haitians are Levi, and so on. At first glance, it seems empowering—finally, a map of who we are.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth: that chart is fake. And the man who created it admitted it.



The Origins of the Chart

The 12 Tribes Chart originated from a group known as One West Hebrew Israelites in the 1970s. A leader named Aria crafted the chart, assigning each of the 12 tribes of Israel to modern ethnic groups across the Americas and Caribbean. His breakdown included:

Judah = African-Americans

Benjamin = Jamaicans

Levi = Haitians

Simeon = Dominicans

Zebulun = Central Americans

Ephraim = Puerto Ricans

And so on...


But Aria later admitted that the chart was not based on genealogy, archaeology, or scripture. It was based on "revelation." In other words, he made it up.



Why It Doesn't Add Up

Even from a basic standpoint, the chart falls apart:

Jamaica and Haiti are neighboring islands with nearly identical historical experiences, yet they're assigned to separate tribes.

The chart divides tribes by colonial boundaries, not by bloodlines.

It ignores migration, intermarriage, and the real complexity of diasporic history.


Truth is, the scattering of Israel wasn’t tidy. It wasn’t a clean GPS drop of one tribe here, another over there. It was chaotic, global, and messy by design.



What the Chart Got Right: The Bigger Truth

The part the chart gets right is this: Black people, especially those impacted by the Transatlantic Slave Trade, are very likely descendants of Yasharal (Israel).

Not because of a neat list. But because of:

Deuteronomy 28 and its prophetic curses

The historic records of Hebrew customs in West Africa

Linguistic, spiritual, and cultural parallels among groups like the Igbo, Ashanti, Sefwi, Yoruba, and others


The people sold into slavery weren't Hamites. Hamites didn’t sell Hamites. They sold foreigners among them — the Hebrews who had fled into Africa centuries earlier.



Yasharal Is Still in Africa Too

Not everyone was taken. The remnant stayed:

The Igbo (many claim descent from Gad)

Lemba (scientifically verified priestly DNA)

Beta Israel of Ethiopia (recognized as legitimate descendants of Israel)


Others are spread throughout Central and South America, even parts of India and the Pacific. The tribes were scattered to the four corners — not boxed into a Caribbean chart.



So Who Are the 12 Tribes Today?

We may not know with GPS certainty. But we do know the signs:

The oppression

The cultural erasure

The spiritual awakening

The desire to return to covenant


If you are Black and descended from slavery...
If your soul burns for Yah, Torah, and truth...
You are very likely Yasharal.



Final Word

It’s time we stop clinging to man-made charts and start leaning on truth. The Most High didn’t scatter us to be color-coded by country. He scattered us as a judgment, but also with a promise of return.

We are not just African. We are the scattered seed of Jacob.
We are the people of the Book.
We are the covenant bearers.
We are Yasharal.



Out of many, one people. Out of bondage, 12 tribes.

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