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Chapter 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 honor, be not thou united: for in their anger
they slew a man, and in their self-will 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 1him
shall the gathering of the people be.
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Num 24:17,
Deut 18:15,
Dan 9:24,
Matt 11:3,
Acts 3:22,
Acts 7:37
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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 raven 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. |