Genesis:49-50
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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 .
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And Joseph fell upon his father '
s face ,
and wept upon him ,
and kissed him .
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father :
and the physicians embalmed Israel .
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And forty days were fulfilled for him ;
for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed :
and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days .
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And when the days of his mourning were past ,
Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh ,
saying ,
If now I have found grace in your eyes ,
speak ,
I pray you ,
in the ears of Pharaoh ,
saying ,
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My father made me swear ,
saying ,
Lo ,
I die :
in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan ,
there shalt thou bury me .
Now therefore let me go up ,
I pray thee ,
and bury my father ,
and I will come again .
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And Pharaoh said ,
Go up ,
and bury thy father ,
according as he made thee swear .
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And Joseph went up to bury his father :
and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh ,
the elders of his house ,
and all the elders of the land of Egypt ,
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And all the house of Joseph ,
and his brethren ,
and his father '
s house :
only their little ones ,
and their flocks ,
and their herds ,
they left in the land of Goshen .
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen :
and it was a very great company .
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And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad ,
which is beyond Jordan ,
and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation :
and he made a mourning for his father seven days .
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And when the inhabitants of the land ,
the Canaanites ,
saw the mourning in the floor of Atad ,
they said ,
This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians :
wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim ,
which is beyond Jordan .
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And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them :
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For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan ,
and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah ,
which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite ,
before Mamre .
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And Joseph returned into Egypt ,
he ,
and his brethren ,
and all that went up with him to bury his father ,
after he had buried his father .
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And when Joseph '
s brethren saw that their father was dead ,
they said ,
Joseph will peradventure hate us ,
and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him .
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And they sent a messenger unto Joseph ,
saying ,
Thy father did command before he died ,
saying ,
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So shall ye say unto Joseph ,
Forgive ,
I pray thee now ,
the trespass of thy brethren ,
and their sin ;
for they did unto thee evil :
and now ,
we pray thee ,
forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father .
And Joseph wept when they spake unto him .
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And his brethren also went and fell down before his face ;
and they said ,
Behold ,
we be thy servants .
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And Joseph said unto them ,
Fear not :
for am I in the place of God ?
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But as for you ,
ye thought evil against me ;
but God meant it unto good ,
to bring to pass ,
as it is this day ,
to save much people alive .
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Now therefore fear ye not :
I will nourish you ,
and your little ones .
And he comforted them ,
and spake kindly unto them .
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And Joseph dwelt in Egypt ,
he ,
and his father '
s house :
and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years .
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And Joseph saw Ephraim '
s children of the third generation :
the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph '
s knees .
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And Joseph said unto his brethren ,
I die :
and God will surely visit you ,
and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham ,
to Isaac ,
and to Jacob .
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And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel ,
saying ,
God will surely visit you ,
and ye shall carry up my bones from hence .
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So Joseph died ,
being an hundred and ten years old :
and they embalmed him ,
and he was put in a coffin in Egypt .