Gen 49:1 And Jacob called his sons and said, Gather yourselves and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.
Gen 49:2 Gather yourselves and hear, sons of Jacob; yea, listen to your father Israel:
Gen 49:3 Reuben, you are my first-born, my strength and the firstfruit of my power; excellence of dignity and excellence of might.
Gen 49:4 Like boiling water you shall not excel, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.
Gen 49:5 Simeon and Levi, brothers; their weapons are instruments of violence.
Gen 49:6 Let not my soul come into their counsel; let not my spirit be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed a man; and in selfwill they hamstrung a bull.
Gen 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.
Gen 49:8 Judah, may your brothers praise you, your hand be on the neck of your enemies. May the sons of your father bow themselves to you.
Gen 49:9 Judah is a lion’s whelp. My son, you have risen up from the prey; he stoops, he crouches like a lion; and like a lioness, who can rouse him?
Gen 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawmaker from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and the obedience of the peoples to him.
Gen 49:11 Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass’s colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in wine, and his covering in the blood of grapes.
Gen 49:12 His eyes shall be dark from wine and his teeth white from milk.
Gen 49:13 Zebulun shall live at the seashore, and he shall be a haven of ships, even his border beside Sidon.
Gen 49:14 Issachar is a strong ass, crouching between the sheepfolds.
Gen 49:15 And he saw a resting place that it was good, and that the land was pleasant. And he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tribute slave.
Gen 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Gen 49:17 Let Dan be a serpent on the way, a horned snake on the path that bites the horses’ heels, and its rider falls backward.
Gen 49:18 I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah.
Gen 49:19 Gad, a raiding band shall attack him, and he shall attack their heel.
Gen 49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall give a king’s delicacies.
Gen 49:21 Naphtali is a deer let loose giving one beautiful sayings.
Gen 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a spring; his branches run over a wall.
Gen 49:23 And the masters of arrows harass him, and shoot, and an archer lurks for him.
Gen 49:24 His bow abides in strength, and the hands of his arms are made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.
Gen 49:25 From the God of your father, may He help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven from above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and womb.
Gen 49:26 The blessings of your father are above the blessings of my offspring, to the limit of everlasting hills; may they be for the head of Joseph and for the crown of the leader of his brothers.
Gen 49:27 Benjamin is a wolf that tears. In the morning he devours the prey, and at evening he divides the spoil.
Gen 49:28 All these were the tribes of Israel, two and ten. And this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, each one with what was according to his blessing, he blessed them.
Gen 49:29 And he commanded them, and said to them, I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me beside my fathers, at the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Gen 49:30 in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.
Gen 49:31 They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and I buried Leah there;
Gen 49:32 the purchase of the field and the cave in it, from the sons of Heth.
Gen 49:33 And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.

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