Genesis:49

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* And Jacob called to his sons and said , Gather yourselves together , that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the days to come . * Gather yourselves together , and hear , sons of Jacob , and listen to Israel your father . * Reuben , you [are ] my first-born , my might , and the beginning of my strength , the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power . * Unstable as water , you shall not excel , because you went up to your father 's bed ; then you defiled it . He went up to my couch . * Simeon and Levi [are ] brothers ; tools of violence [are ] their weapons . * Oh my soul , do not come into their secret . Let not my honor be united with their assembly . For in their anger they killed a man , and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull . * Let their anger be cursed , for [it was ] fierce ; and their wrath , for it was cruel . I will divide them in Jacob , and scatter them in Israel . * Judah , may your brothers praise you . May your hand [be ] in the neck of your enemies . May your father 's sons bow before you . * Judah [is ] a lion 's whelp . My son , you have gone up from the prey . He stooped , he crouched like a lion ; and like a lioness , who shall rouse him ? * The scepter shall not depart from Judah , nor a Lawgiver from between his feet , until Shiloh come . And the obedience of the peoples to him . * Binding his foal to the vine , and his ass 's colt to the choice vine , he washed his garments in wine , and his clothes in the blood of grapes . * His eyes [shall be ] sparkling with wine , and his teeth white from milk . * Zebulun shall live at the sea shore . And he [shall be ] a haven for ships , and his border beside Sidon . * Issachar [is ] a strong ass crouching down between the sheepfolds . * And he saw that rest [was ] good and that the land was pleasant . And he bowed his shoulder to bear , and became a tribute-slave . * Dan shall judge his people , as one of the tribes of Israel . * Dan shall be a serpent by the way , an adder in the path , that bites the horse 's heels , so that its rider shall fall backward . * I have waited for Your salvation , O LORD . * Gad , raiders shall attack him , and he shall attack [their ] heel . * Out of Asher his bread [shall be ] fat , and he shall yield royal dainties . * Naphtali [is ] a deer let loose . He gives goodly words . * Joseph [is ] a fruitful son , a fruitful son by a well , whose branches run over the wall . * The archers have sorely grieved him , and shot [at him ], and an archer lurks for him . * 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 the Shepherd , the Rock of Israel ); * by the God of your father , who shall help you . And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven above , blessings of the deep that lies beneath , blessings of the breasts and of the womb . * The blessings of your father are above the blessings of my ancestors , to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills . They shall be on the head of Joseph , and on the crown of the head of him , the ruler , the leader of his brothers . * Benjamin is a wolf that tears in pieces . In the morning he shall devour the prey , and at night he shall divide the spoil . * All these [were ] the twelve tribes of Israel . And this [is ] what their father spoke to them , and blessed them ; everyone according to his blessing he blessed them . * And he charged them and said to them , I am to be 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 ] before Mamre , in the land of Canaan , the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying-place . * They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there , and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah . And I buried Leah there ; * the purchase of the field and the cave in it , from the sons of Heth . * And Jacob finished commanding his sons , and he gathered his feet into the bed . And he expired , and was gathered to his people .

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