Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke to them and blessed them; every man according to his blessing he blessed them.
New American Standard Bible
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
These are the tribes of Israel, 12 in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
International Standard Version
That's how Israel blessed these twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father told them when he pronounced his blessing for them, blessing each one with a blessing suitable for them.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
All these are the [beginnings of the] twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each one according to the blessing appropriate to him.
Bible in Basic English
These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing.
Darby Translation
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them; and he blessed them: every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
Julia Smith Translation
All these tribes of Israel, twelve: and this what their father spake to them, and he will bless them; each according to his blessing he blessed them.
King James 2000
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spoke unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel, and this [is] what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing.
Modern King James verseion
All these were the twelve tribes of Israel. And this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them; everyone according to his blessing he blessed them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is that which their father spake unto them when he blessed them, every man with a several blessing.
NET Bible
These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.
New Heart English Bible
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
The Emphasized Bible
All these, are the twelve tribes of Israel, - And this, is that which their father spake to them when he blessed them, Each man severally according to the blessing wherewith he blessed them.
Webster
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it which their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
World English Bible
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
Youngs Literal Translation
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is that which their father hath spoken unto them, and he blesseth them; each according to his blessing he hath blessed them.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 49:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Death And Burial Of Jacob
27 Benjamin is a wolf that ravens. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at evening he shall divide the spoil. 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke to them and blessed them; every man according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he ordered them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 35:22
And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Exodus 28:21
And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name; they shall be for the twelve tribes.
Numbers 23:24
Behold, the people rise up as a lioness, and as a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.
1 Kings 18:31
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name.
Esther 8:7
Then the king Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Esther 8:9
Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third [day] of it. And it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and rulers
Esther 8:11
in which the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province who would assault them, [t
Esther 9:1-10
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them
Ezekiel 39:8-10
Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says lord LORD. This is the day of which I have spoken.
Acts 26:7
to which our twelve tribes, serving in earnestness night and day, hope to attain, about which hope, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews!
Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of those sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel.
Zechariah 14:1-7
Behold, a day of LORD comes when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
James 1:1
James, a bondman of God and of Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting.