At Karnak, Thutmose III lists the names Jacob-El, Joseph-El and Levi-El as places or ethnic groups over which he claims dominion. These three names refer either to people or places in Canaan, and they each bear a remarkable resemblance to the respective patriarchal names of Jacob, Joseph and Levi in Genesis. The divine element El in the names parallels the common Hebrew word for God l). It is therefore quite likely that the appearance of Jacob-El, Joseph-El and Levi-El actually refer to early communities of tribal groups ancestral to the Israelites.