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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