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✠ Genesis 49
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GEN 49:1 And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.
GEN 49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel your father:
GEN 49:3 Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow: excelling in gifts, greater in command.
GEN 49:4 Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not: because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.
GEN 49:5 Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.
GEN 49:6 Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their selfwill they undermined a wall.
GEN 49:7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.
GEN 49:8 Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hands shall be on the necks of thy enemies: the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.
GEN 49:9 Juda is a lion’s whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?
GEN 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.
GEN 49:11 Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the vine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.
GEN 49:12 His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
GEN 49:13 Zabulon shall dwell on the sea shore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.
GEN 49:14 Issachar shall be a strong ass lying down between the borders.
GEN 49:16 He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.
GEN 49:16 Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.
GEN 49:17 Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse’s heels that his rider may fall backward.
GEN 49:18 I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.
GEN 49:19 Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.
GEN 49:20 Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.
GEN 49:21 Nephtali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.
GEN 49:22 Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold; the daughters run to and fro upon the wall.
GEN 49:23 But they that held darts provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.
GEN 49:24 His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.
GEN 49:25 The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
GEN 49:26 The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come; may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.
GEN 49:27 Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.
GEN 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one, with their proper blessings.
GEN 49:29 And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,
GEN 49:30 Over against Mambre in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought together with the field of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in.
GEN 49:31 There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.
GEN 49:32 And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.