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Genesis 49:1 (show verse)
Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.
Genesis 49:2 (show verse)
And
Genesis 49:3 (show verse)
My might and
Genesis 49:4 (show verse)
Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.
Genesis 49:5 (show verse)
Their swords are implements of violence.
Genesis 49:6 (show verse)
Let not my glory be united with their assembly;
Because in their anger they slew
And in their self-will they lamed
Genesis 49:7 (show verse)
And their wrath, for it is cruel.
And scatter them in Israel.
Genesis 49:8 (show verse)
Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
Genesis 49:9 (show verse)
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
And as a
Genesis 49:10 (show verse)
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
And
Genesis 49:11 (show verse)
And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;
And his robes in the blood of grapes.
Genesis 49:12 (show verse)
And his teeth
Genesis 49:13 (show verse)
And he shall be
And his flank shall be toward Sidon.
Genesis 49:14 (show verse)
Genesis 49:15 (show verse)
And that the land was pleasant,
He bowed his shoulder to bear burdens,
And became a slave at forced labor.
Genesis 49:16 (show verse)
As one of the tribes of Israel.
Genesis 49:17 (show verse)
A horned snake in the path,
That bites the horse’s heels,
So that his rider falls backward.
Genesis 49:18 (show verse)
Genesis 49:19 (show verse)
But he will raid at their
Genesis 49:20 (show verse)
And he will yield royal dainties.
Genesis 49:21 (show verse)
He gives beautiful words.
Genesis 49:22 (show verse)
A fruitful
Its
Genesis 49:23 (show verse)
And shot at him and harassed him;
Genesis 49:24 (show verse)
And
From the hands of the
(From there is
Genesis 49:25 (show verse)
And
With
Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Genesis 49:26 (show verse)
Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors
Up to the
May they be on the head of Joseph,
And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.
Genesis 49:27 (show verse)
In the morning he devours the prey,
And in the evening he divides the spoil.”
Genesis 49:28 (show verse)
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him.
Genesis 49:29 (show verse)
Then he charged them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Genesis 49:30 (show verse)
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site.
Genesis 49:31 (show verse)
There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah—
Genesis 49:32 (show verse)
the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth.”
Genesis 49:33 (show verse)
When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.