Genesis:49

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* And Jacob called to his sons , and said : gather yourselves together , that I may tell you (note :){+}(:note ) that which will befall you {+} in the latter days . * Assemble yourselves , and hear , you (note :){+}(:note ) sons of Jacob ; And listen to Israel your {+} father . * Reuben , you are my firstborn , my might , and the beginning of my strength ; The preeminence of dignity , and the preeminence of power . * Boiling over as water , you will not have the preeminence ; Because you went up to your father 's bed ; Then you defiled it : he went up to my couch . * Simeon and Levi are brothers ; They determined to destroy violently . * O my soul , don 't come into their council ; To their assembly , my glory , don 't be united ; For in their anger they slew a man , And in their self-will they hocked an ox . * 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 . * Judah , you will your brothers praise : Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies ; Your father 's sons will bow down before you . * Judah is a lion 's whelp ; From the prey , my son , you have gone up : He stooped down , he couched as a lion , And as a lioness ; who will rouse him up ? * The scepter will not depart from Judah , nor the ruler 's staff from between his feet , until Shiloh comes : And to him will the obedience of the peoples be . * Binding his foal to the vine , And his donkey 's colt to the choice vine ; He has washed his garments in wine , And his vesture in the blood of grapes : * His eyes will be red with wine , And his teeth white with milk . * Zebulun will stay at the haven of the sea ; And he will be for a haven of ships ; And his border will be on Sidon . * Issachar is a strong donkey , Couching down between the sheepfolds : * And he saw a resting-place that it was good , And the land that it was pleasant ; And he bowed his shoulder to bear , And became slave labor . * Dan will judge his people , As one of the tribes of Israel . * Dan will be a serpent in the way , An adder in the path , That bites the horse 's heels , So that his rider falls backward . * I have waited for your salvation , O Yahweh . * Gad , a troop will press on him ; But he will press on their heel . * Out of Asher his bread will be fat , And he will yield royal dainties . * Naphtali is a hind let loose : He gives goodly words . * Joseph is a fruitful bough , A fruitful bough by a fountain ; His branches run over the wall . * The archers have intensely grieved him because they shot at him , and persecuted him : * But his bow remained firm , and the arms of his hands were agile , by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob , Israel 's shepherd and rock , * Even by the God of your father , who will help you , And by the Almighty , who will bless you , With blessings of heaven above , Blessings of the deep that crouches beneath , Blessings of the breasts , and of the womb . * The blessings of your father Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors To the utmost bound of the everlasting hills : They will be on the head of Joseph , And on the top of the head of him who was separate from his brothers . * Benjamin is a wolf that ravens : In the morning he will devour the prey , And at evening he will divide the spoil . * All these are the twelve tribes of Israel : and this is it that their father spoke to them and blessed them ; each one , according to the blessing suitable to him , he blessed them . * And he charged them , and said to them , I am to be gathered to my relatives : 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 , which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place . * There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah : * the field and the cave that is in it , which was purchased from the sons of Heth . * And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons , he gathered up his feet into the bed , and yielded up the ghost , and was gathered to his people .

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