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The Book of Genesis
Genesis 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.
- 2
- Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;
and hearken unto Israel your father.
- 3
- Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the
beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
power:
- 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.
- 5
- Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are
in their habitations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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:
- 12
- His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white
with milk.
- 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.
- 14
- Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two
burdens:
- 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.
- 16
- Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of
Israel.
- 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.
- 18
- I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
- 19
- Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome
at the last.
- 20
- Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield
royal dainties.
- 21
- Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
- 22
- Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a
well; whose branches run over the wall:
- 23
- The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him,
and hated him:
- 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:)
- 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:
- 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.
- 27
- Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall
devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 31
- There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they
buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
- 32
- The purchase of the field and of the cave that is
therein was from the children of Heth.
- 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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