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CHAPTER 49
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.
2
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
3
Reuben, thou
art
my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of
dignity, and the excellency of power:
4
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.
5
Simeon and Levi
are
brethren; instruments of cruelty
are in
their habitations.
6
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.
7
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.
8
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.
9
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?
10
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.
11
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:
12
His eyes
shall be
red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13
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.
14
Issachar
is
a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
15
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.
16
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17
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.
18
I have waited
for thy salvation, O L
ORD
.
19
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20
Out of Asher his bread
shall be
fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21
Naphtali
is
a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
22
Joseph
is
a fruitful bough,
even
a fruitful bough by a well;
whose
branches run over the wall:
23
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot
at him,
and hated him:
24
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:)
25
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:
26
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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