Genesis:49

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* And Jacob called his sons , and said , Gather yourselves together , and I will tell you what will befall you at the end of days . * Assemble yourselves , and hear , ye sons of Jacob , And listen to Israel your father . * Reuben , thou art my firstborn , My might , and the firstfruits of my vigour : Excellency of dignity , and excellency of strength . * Impetuous as the waters , thou shalt have no pre-eminence ; Because thou wentest up to thy father 's couch : Then defiledst thou [it ]: he went up to my bed . * Simeon and Levi are brethren : Instruments of violence their swords . * My soul , come not into their council ; Mine honour , be not united with their assembly ; For in their anger they slew men , And in their wantonness houghed oxen . * Cursed be their anger , for it [was ] violent ; And their rage , for it [was ] cruel ! I will divide them in Jacob , And scatter them in Israel . * Judah -- [as to ] thee , thy brethren will praise thee ; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies ; Thy father 's children will bow down to thee . * Judah is a young lion ; From the prey , my son , thou art gone up . He stoopeth , he layeth himself down as a lion , And as a lioness : who will rouse him up ? * The scepter will not depart from Judah , Nor the lawgiver from between his feet , Until Shiloh come , And to him will be the obedience of peoples . * He bindeth his foal to the vine , And his ass 's colt to the choice vine ; He washeth his dress in wine , And his garment in the blood of grapes . * The eyes are red with wine , And the teeth [are ] white with milk . * Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas ; Yea , he will be at the shore of the ships , And his side [toucheth ] upon Sidon . * Issachar is a bony ass , Crouching down between two hurdles . * And he saw the rest that it was good , And the land that it was pleasant ; And he bowed his shoulder to bear , And was a tributary servant . * Dan will judge his people , As another of the tribes of Israel . * Dan will be a serpent on the way , A horned snake on the path , Which biteth the horse 's heels , So that the rider falleth backwards . * I wait for thy salvation , O Jehovah . * Gad -- troops will rush upon him ; But he will rush upon the heel . * Out of Asher , his bread shall be fat , And he will give royal dainties . * Naphtali is a hind let loose ; He giveth goodly words . * Joseph is a fruitful bough ; A fruitful bough by a well ; [His ] branches shoot over the wall . * The archers have provoked him , And shot at , and hated him ; * But his bow abideth firm , And the arms of his hands are supple By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob . From thence is the shepherd , the stone of Israel : * From the �God of thy father , and he will help thee ; And from the Almighty , and he will bless thee -- With blessings of heaven from above , With blessings of the deep that lieth under , With blessings of the breast and of the womb . * The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my ancestors , Unto the bounds of the everlasting hills : They shall be on the head of Joseph , And on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren . * Benjamin -- [as ] a wolf will he tear to pieces ; In the morning he will devour the prey , And in the evening he will divide the booty . * All these are the twelve tribes of Israel , and this is what their father spoke to them ; and he blessed them : every one according to his blessing he blessed them . * And he charged them , and said to them , I am gathered to my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite , * in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah , which is opposite to Mamre , in the land of Canaan , which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite along with the field for a possession of a sepulchre . * There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife ; and there I buried Leah . * The purchase of the field , and of the cave that is in it , was from the children of Heth . * And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons , he gathered his feet into the bed , and expired , and was gathered to his peoples .

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