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 . * Gather yourselves together , and hear , ye sons of Jacob Ya #aqob #; and hearken unto Israel your father . * Reuben R @#uwben #, thou art my firstborn , my might , and the beginning of my strength , the excellency of dignity s @#eth #, and the excellency of power : * Unstable as water , thou shalt not excel ; because thou wentest up to thy fathers bed ; then defiledst thou it : he went up to my couch . * Simeon and Levi are brethren ; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations . * 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 . * Cursed be their anger , for it was fierce ; and their wrath , for it was cruel : I will divide them in Jacob Ya #aqob #, and scatter them in Israel Yisra #el #. * Judah , thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise : thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies ; thy fathers children shall bow down before thee . * Judah is a lions 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 ? * 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 . * Binding his foal unto the vine , and his asss colt unto the choice vine ; he washed his garments in wine , and his clothes in the blood of grapes : * His eyes shall be red with wine , and his teeth white with milk . * 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 . * Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : * 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 . * Dan shall judge his people , as one of the tribes of Israel Yisra #el #. * 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 . * I have waited for thy salvation y @shuw #ah #, O LORD . * Gad , a troop shall overcome him : but he shall overcome at the last . * Out of Asher his bread shall be fat , and he shall yield royal dainties ma #adan #. * Naphtali is a hind let loose : he giveth goodly words . * Joseph is a fruitful bough , even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall : * The archers #H2671have sorely grieved him , and shot at him , and hated 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 Ya #aqob #; (from thence is the shepherd , the stone of Israel Yisra #el #: ) * 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 : * The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills gib #ah #: they shall be on the head of Joseph , and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren . * Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf z @#eb #: in the morning he shall devour the prey , and at night he shall divide the spoil . * All these are the twelve #H8147tribes of Israel Yisra #el #: and this is it that their father spake unto them , and blessed them ; every one according to his blessing he blessed them . * 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 , * In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah , which is before Mamre , in the land of Canaan K @na #an #, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace . * There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah Le #ah #. * The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth . * 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 .

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