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Chapter 49 | |
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. | |
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. | |
| | Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: |
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. | |
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are
in their habitations. | |
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. | |
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. | |
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. | |
| | 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? |
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. | |
| | 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: |
His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. | |
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. | |
Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: | |
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. | |
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. | |
| | 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. |
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. | |
| | Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. |
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. | |
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. | |
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: | |
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: | |
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:) | |
| | 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: |
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. | |
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. | |
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. | |
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, | |
| | 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. |
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. | |
The purchase of
the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. | |
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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