Dan was the fifth son of Jacob, the first son of Bilhah, and the leader of the Tribe of Dan. In the apocryphal Testaments of the Patriarchs, Dan is said to have been the one who came up with the idea smearing Joseph's coat with the blood of a kid and lying to Jacob about what happened to him. Rabbinical sources consider Dan an archetype of wickedness. It was thought by early Christian writers including Irenaeus and Hippolytus that the Antichrist will come from the tribe of Dan.