Genesis 49:16

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan, though the son of a secondary wife, was to be put on a footing of exact equality with the children of Rachel and Leah. He was to be constituted one of the tribes of Israel, and to be governed by a ruler of his own tribe, notwithstanding the smallness of his possession. Dan, the last of the tribes in having a settlement allocated to it, was placed originally on the western extremities of Judah, and afterward acquired a new portion in the north of Canaan.