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 Chapter
49
- 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.
- 49:2
- Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
- 49:3
- Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning
of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency
of power:
- 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.
- 49:5
- Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are
in their habitations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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:
- 49:12
- His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with
milk.
- 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.
- 49:14
- Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
- 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.
- 49:16
- Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
- 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.
- 49:18
- I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
- 49:19
- Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at
the last.
- 49:20
- Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal
dainties.
- 49:21
- Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
- 49:22
- Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
- 49:23
- The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and
hated him:
- 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:)
- 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:
- 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.
- 49:27
- Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour
the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 49:31
- There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they
buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
- 49:32
- The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein
was from the children of Heth.
- 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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