Genesis:49
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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 .
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Gather yourselves together ,
and hear ,
ye sons of Jacob ;
and hearken unto Israel your father .
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Reuben ,
thou art my firstborn ,
my might ,
and the beginning of my strength ,
the excellency of dignity ,
and the excellency of power :
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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 .
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Simeon and Levi are brethren ;
instruments of cruelty are in their habitations .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 :
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His eyes shall be red with wine ,
and his teeth white with milk .
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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 .
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Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens :
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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 .
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Dan shall judge his people ,
as one of the tribes of Israel .
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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 .
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I have waited for thy salvation ,
O LORD .
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Gad ,
a troop shall overcome him :
but he shall overcome at the last .
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Out of Asher his bread shall be fat ,
and he shall yield royal dainties .
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Naphtali is a hind let loose :
he giveth goodly words .
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Joseph is a fruitful bough ,
even a fruitful bough by a well ;
whose branches run over the wall :
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The archers have sorely grieved him ,
and shot at him ,
and hated him :
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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 :)
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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 :
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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 .
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Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf :
in the morning he shall devour the prey ,
and at night he shall divide the spoil .
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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 .
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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 ,
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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 .
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ;
there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ;
and there I buried Leah .
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The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth .
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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 .