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title: Genesis 49
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createdAt: 2024-07-21T03:58:40.002Z
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**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.