GE-49:1  And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather

yourselves

together, that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you in

the

last days.

GE-49:2  Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;

and

hearken unto Israel your father.

GE-49:3  Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the

beginning

of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of

power:

GE-49:4  Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou

wentest

up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou [it]: he went up to

my

couch.

GE-49:5  Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty

[are

in] their habitations.

GE-49:6  O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their

assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger

they

slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

GE-49:7  Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their

wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and

scatter them

in Israel.

GE-49:8  Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise:

thy hand

[shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children

shall

bow down before thee.

GE-49:9  Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou

art

gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old

lion;

who shall rouse him up?

GE-49:10  The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a

lawgiver from

between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him [shall] the

gathering of the people [be].

GE-49:11  Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt

unto the

choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in

the

blood of grapes:

GE-49:12  His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white

with

milk.

GE-49:13  Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he

[shall

be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be] unto Zidon.

GE-49:14  Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between two

burdens:

GE-49:15  And he saw that rest [was] good, and the land that [it

was]

pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant

unto

tribute.

GE-49:16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of

Israel.

GE-49:17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the

path,

that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall

backward.

GE-49:18  I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

GE-49:19  Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome

at

the last.

GE-49:20  Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall

yield

royal dainties.

GE-49:21  Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

GE-49:22  Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough

by a

well; [whose] branches run over the wall:

GE-49:23  The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him],

 and

hated him:

GE-49:24  But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his

hands

were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from

thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

GE-49:25  [Even] by the God of thy father, who shall help thee;

and by

the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven

above,

blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts,

 and

of the womb:

GE-49:26  The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the

blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the

everlasting

hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of

the

head of him that was separate from his brethren.

GE-49:27  Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he

shall

devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

GE-49:28  All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this

[is

it] that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every

one

according to his blessing he blessed them.

GE-49:29  And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be

gathered

unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in

the

field of Ephron the Hittite,

GE-49:30  In the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which

[is]

before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with

the

field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

GE-49:31  There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there

they

buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

GE-49:32  The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is]

therein

[was] from the children of Heth.

GE-49:33  And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons,

he

gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and

was

gathered unto his people.



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