44 Bible Verses about Jacob, Life And Character Of

And the first shall come forth red, wholly as a mantle of hair: and they will call his name Esau. And after this, his brother will come forth, and his hand having laid hold upon Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaak the son of sixty years in her bringing them forth.

And Isaak will supplicate to Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah will be supplicated for him, and Rebekah his wife will conceive. And the sons will struggle within her: and she will say,. If so, wherefore am I thus? And she will go to inquire of Jehovah. And Jehovah will say to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy belly: and a people shall be strong above a people, and the great shall serve the small.read more.
And her days shall be completed to bring forth; and behold, twins in her belly. And the first shall come forth red, wholly as a mantle of hair: and they will call his name Esau. And after this, his brother will come forth, and his hand having laid hold upon Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaak the son of sixty years in her bringing them forth.

And he will say, Is it not that his name was called Jacob? he will defraud me this twice: he took my birthright and behold, now he took my blessing And he will say, Didst thou not put aside a blessing for me?

And Jacob will boil a boiling, and Esau will come from the country, and he faint And Esau will say to Jacob, Give me now to eat from the red; this red, for I faint: for this he called his name Edom. And Jacob will say, Sell this day thy birth-right to me.read more.
And Esau will say, Behold, I am going to die, and what to me this birthright? And Jacob will say, Swear to me this day: and he will swear to him: and he will sell his birth-right to Jacob. And Jacob gave Esau food, and the boiling of lentiles; and he will eat and drink and will rise and go forth: and Esau will despise the birth-right

And it shall be as Isaak grew old, and his eyes shall be weak for seeing, and he will call Esau his son the great, and he will say to him, My son: and he will say to him, Behold me. And he will say, Behold now, I grew old; I knew not the day of my death. Therefore take now, thy weapon, thy quiver and thy bow, and go forth to the field and hunt for me a hunting.read more.
And make for me dainties as that I loved, and bring it to me, and eating, that my soul shall praise thee before I shall die. And Rebekah heard in the speaking of Isaak to Esau his son: and Esau went to the field to hunt, a hunting, to bring. And Rebekah spake to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speaking to Esau thy brother, saying, Bring to me a hunting, and make for me dainties, and eating, and I will praise thee before Jehovah, before my death. And now my son, hear to my voice, according to that I command thee. Go now to the flocks, and take to me from thence two kids of the she-goats good, and I will make them dainties for thy father, as that he loved. And thou shall bring to thy father, and eating, so that he will praise thee before his death. And Jacob will say to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother a man of hair, and I a smooth man: Perhaps my father will feel me, and I was in his eyes as mocking; and I brought a curse and not a praise. And his mother will say to him, Upon me thy curse my son; only hear to my voice, and go take to me. And he will go, and will take, and bring to his mother: and his mother will make dainties as that his father loved. And Rebekah will take desirable covering of Esau her son, the great, which was with her in the house, and will put upon Jacob her son, the small. And the nakedness of the skins of the shegoats, she put upon his hands and upon the smoothness of his neck. And she will give the dainties, and the bread which she made, into the hand of Jacob her son. And he will go to his father and will say, My father. And he will say, Behold me; who thou my son? And Jacob will say to his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I did according to that thou spakest to me: arise, now, sit and eat from my hunting, so that thy soul shall praise me. And Isaak will say to his son, How this, thou wert quick to find my son? and the will say, Because Jehovah thy God caused to meet before me. And Isaak will say to Jacob, Come near, now, and I shall feel thee, my son, if thou this my son Esau or not And Jacob will come near to Isaak his father, and he will feel him, and he will say, The voice, the voice of Jacob; and the hands, the hands of Esau. And he knew him not, for his hands were as the hands of Esau, his brother of hair: and he will praise him. And he will say, Thou this my son Esau? and he will say, I. And he will say, Bring near to me, and eating of my son's hunting, so that my soul shall praise thee. And he will bring near to him and he will eat: and he will bring wine to him, and he will drink And Isaak his father will say to him, Come near, now, and kiss me, my son. And he will come near, and will kiss him: and he will smell the smell of his garment, and he will bless him, and he will say, See, the smell of my son as the smell of a field which Jehovah praised. And God will give to thee from the dew of the heavens, and from the fatness of the earth, and a multiude of corn and new wine. And nations shall serve thee, and peoples shall bow down to thee; be lord over thy brother, and thy mother's sons shall bow down to thee: cursed he cursing thee, and blessed he praising thee.

Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture. For ye know also afterwards, wishing to inherit the praise, he was disapproved of: for he found no place for a change of mind, although having sought it with tears.

And Jacob will go from the well of the oath, and will come to Haran. And he will light upon a place and he will remain there, for the sun was gone down: and he will take from the stones of the place and put at his head and will lie down in that place. And he will dream, and behold a ladder placed in the earth, and the head of it reaching to the heavens: and behold the messengers of God ascending and descending upon it.read more.
And behold, Jehovah was set upon it, and he will say, I Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaak: the land which thou liest upon it, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed was as the dust of the earth, And thou didst spread abroad to the sea and east, and north, and south: and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed, and in thy seed. And behold, I am with thee, and I preserved thee in all which thou shalt go, and I turned thee back to this land; for I will not forsake thee, till that I have done what I said to thee.

And Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee. And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great; and thou shalt be blessed. And I will praise them praising thee, and I will curse him cursing thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be praised.

And he will bring him forth without, and will say, Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him, So shall be thy seed.

And nations shall serve thee, and peoples shall bow down to thee; be lord over thy brother, and thy mother's sons shall bow down to thee: cursed he cursing thee, and blessed he praising thee.

And God Almighty will bless thee, and will make thee fruitful, and will multiply thee, and thou wert for an assembly of nations. And he will give to thee the praise of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; for thee to inherit the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.

And God will say to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and an assembly of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come forth from thy loins. And the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaak, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give this land. And God will go up from him in the place in which he spake with him.

And Esau will lie in wait for Jacob, because of the blessing which his father blessed him: and Esau will say in his heart, The days of mourning of my father will draw near, and I will kill Jacob my brother. And the words of Esau her son, the great, will be announced to Rebekah; and she will send and call to Jacob her son, the small, and she will say to him, Behold, Esau thy brother will avenge himself toward thee by killing thee. And now my son, hear to my voice: and arising escape for thyself to Laban my brother, to Haran.read more.
And thou shalt dwell with him days afterwards, until thy brother's wrath shall turn away; Until thy brother's anger turning away from thee, and forgetting what thou didst to him: and I have sent and have taken thee from thence, lest I shall be bereaved of you two in one day.

And Isaak will send away Jacob; and he will go to Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.

And Jacob will go from the well of the oath, and will come to Haran. And he will light upon a place and he will remain there, for the sun was gone down: and he will take from the stones of the place and put at his head and will lie down in that place. And he will dream, and behold a ladder placed in the earth, and the head of it reaching to the heavens: and behold the messengers of God ascending and descending upon it.read more.
And behold, Jehovah was set upon it, and he will say, I Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaak: the land which thou liest upon it, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed was as the dust of the earth, And thou didst spread abroad to the sea and east, and north, and south: and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed, and in thy seed. And behold, I am with thee, and I preserved thee in all which thou shalt go, and I turned thee back to this land; for I will not forsake thee, till that I have done what I said to thee. And Jacob will awake from his sleep, and he will say, surely there is Jehovah in this place and I knew not And he will be afraid, and will Say, How terrible this place is not this but the house of God, and this the gate of the heavens? And Jacob will rise early in the morning, and take the stone which he put at his head, and will set it a pillar, and pour oil upon its head. And he will call the name of that place the house of God: and Ailam Luz the name of the city at the beginning. And Jacob will vow a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will preserve me in this way which I went, and gave to me bread to eat, and covering to put on, And I turned back in peace to my father's house; and Jehovah was to me for God. And this stone which I set a pillar shall be the house of God, and all which thou shalt give to me, the tenth I will tithe it to thee.

And Isaak will call to Jacob, and will bless him, and will command him, and will say to him, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. Rising, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take to thee from thence a wife from the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.

And to Laban two daughters: the name to the great, Leah; and the name to the small, Rachel. And the eyes of Leah weak, and Rachel was fair of form and fair of look. And Jacob will love Rachel, and will say, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy daughter the small.read more.
And Laban will say, Good for me to give her to thee rather than for me to give her to another man. Dwell with me. And Jacob will serve for Rachel seven years, and they will be in his eyes as a few days in his loving her. And Jacob will say to Laban, Give my wife, for the days were completed, and I will go in to her. And Laban will gather together all the men of the place, and will make a drinking. And it will be in the evening, and he will take Leah his daughter, and bring her to him, and he will go in to her. And Laban will give to her, Zilpah his maid, to Leah his daughter a maid. And it will be in the morning, and behold, she was Leak And he will say to Laban, What this thou didst to me? did I not serve with thee for Rachel? and wherefore didst thou deceive me? And Laban will say, It shall not be done so in our place, to give the small before the first-born. Complete her seven, and we will give to thee also this for work which thou shalt work with me yet other seven years. And Jacob will do so, and he will complete her seven, and he will give to him Rachel his daughter to him for a wife. And Laban will give to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his maid to her for a maid. And he will go in also to Rachel, and he will also love Rachel more than Leah, and he will serve with him yet other seven years.

And he will say to him, Thou. knewest what I served thee, and what was thy cattle with me. For little which was to thee before me, and it will break forth into a multitude; and Jehovah will praise thee at my foot: and now when shall I make to myself a house? And he will say, What shall I give to thee? and Jacob will say, Thou shalt not give to me anything. If thou wilt do to me this word, I will return; I will feed thy sheep; I will watch.read more.
I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire. And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me. And Laban will say to him, Behold, it shall be according to thy word. And he will remove in that day the he-goats banded and patched, and all the she-goats speckled and patched; every one which being white on it, and every one black among the sheep, and he will give into the hand of his sons. And he will set a way of three days between him and between Jacob; and Jacob fed Laban's sheep the rest. And Jacob will take to himself a rod of green storax, and the almond tree, and the plane tree, and he will strip off of them the white strippings, uncovering the white which was upon the rods. And he set the rods which he stripped, in the flowings of channels of water, when the flock shall come to drink, before the sheep, and they shall be in heat in coming to drink. And the sheep shall conceive at the rods, and shall bring forth sheep banded and speckled and patched. And Jacob separated the lambs, and he will give the faces of the sheep to the banded and every one black among the sheep of Laban: and he will set to himself the flocks, to himself alone, and not put them with Laban's sheep. And it was in every one conceiving of the strong sheep, and Jacob put the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the floorings, to conceive among the rods. And in the sheep being feeble, he will not put in: and those being feeble, were to Laban, and those being strong, to Jacob. And the man will break forth greatly, greatly; and there will be to him many sheep and maids, and servants, and camels and asses.

And Jacob will send and call to Rachel and to Leah in the field to his sheep. And will say to them, I saw the face of your father that it is not towards me as yesterday the third day: and the God of my father was with me. And ye yourselves knew that with all my strength I served, your father,read more.
And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten parts; and God gave him not to do evil by me. If thus he will say, The speckled shall be thy hire; and all the sheep shall bring forth speckled: and if thus he will say, The banded shall be thy hire, and all the sheep will bring forth white-footed. And God will take away the cattle of your father and will give them to me.

And he will hear the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob took all which was to our father, and from what was to our father he made all this multitude. And Jacob will see the face of Laban, and behold, it was not towards him as yesterday, the third day. And Jehovah will say to Jacob, Turn back to the land of thy fathers, and to thy lineage; and I will be with thee.

And it shall be in the time the sheep shall conceive, and I shall lift up mine eyes, and I shall see in a dream, and behold, the he-goats ascending upon the sheep, banded, speckled and sprinkled with spots. And the messenger of God will say to me in a dream, Jacob: and I shall say, Behold me. And he will say, Lift up now thine eyes and see all the he-goats ascending upon the sheep, banded, speckled and sprinkled with spots; for I saw all that Laban did to thee.read more.
I the God of the house of God, where thou didst anoint there a pillar; where thou didst vow to me there a vow: now arise, go forth from this land, and turn back to the land of thy kindred.

And Jacob will be left alone by himself, and a man will wrestle with him till the ascending of the morning. And he will see thathewill not prevail over him and he will touch upon the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh will be alienated in his wrestling with him. And he will say, Send me away, for the morning ascended: and he will say, I will not send thee away, unless thou didst bless me.read more.
And he will say to him, What thy name? and he will say, Jacob. And he will say, Thy name shall no more be said Jacob, but Israel, for thou wert a prince with God and with men, and thou shalt prevail. And Jacob will ask and will say, Announce now, thy name: and he will say, For what this thou wilt ask for my name? and he will bless him there. And Jacob will call the name of the place, the face of God: for I saw God lace to face, and my soul shall be saved.

And God will say to Jacob, Arise, go up to the house of God and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, having been seen to thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother. And Jacob will say to his house, and to all which are with him, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments. And we will arise and go to the house of God; and I will make there an altar to God, having answered me in the day of my distress; and he will be with me in the way which I go.read more.
And they will give to Jacob all the strange gods which are in their hand and the earrings which are in their ears, and Jacob will hide them under the turpentine tree which is in Shechem. And they will remove; and the terror of God will be upon the cities which are surrounding them; and they pursued not after the sons of Jacob.

And Jacob will lift up his eyes and will see, and behold Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he will divide the children to Leah and to Rachel and to the two maids. And he set the maids and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph behind them. And he passed through before them, and he will bow himself upon the earth seven times till he brought himself near to his brother.read more.
And Esau will run to his meeting and he will embrace him and will fall upon his neck and will kiss him, and they will weep. And he will lift up his eyes and will see the women and the children, and he will say, To whom these to thee? And he will say, The children with whom God compassionated thy servant. And the maids will draw near, they and their children, and they will bow themselves. And Leah also will draw near, and her children, and they will bow themselves; and after, Joseph will draw near and Rachel, and they will prostrate themselves. And he will say, What to thee all this camp which I met? and he will say, To find grace in thine eyes, my lord. And Esau will say, There is much to me, my brother; what is to thee shall be to thee. And Jacob will say, Nay, now, if now I found grace in thine eyes, and take my gift from my hand, for, for this, I saw thy face as seeing the face of God, and thou wilt be satisfied with me. Take now my blessing which was brought to thee, for God compassionated me, and because all things are to me; and he will press upon him, and he will take. And he will say, We will remove and go, and I will go before thee. And he will say to him, My lord knew that the children are tender, and the sheep and the oxen bringing forth with me, and they overdrive them one day all the flock will die. Now my lord, shall pass through before his servant, and I will drive out softly, according to the foot of the work before me and according to the foot of the children, till I shall come to my lord to Seir. And Esau will say, I will leave now with thee, from the people which are to me; and he will say, For what this? I shall find grace in the eyes of my lord. And Esau will turn back in that day on his way to Seir. And Jacob will remove to the booths, and he will build for himself a house, and he made booths for his cattle; for this he called the name of the place Booths.

And it will be in the dwelling of Israel in that land, and Reuben will go, and will lie with Bilhah, his father's concubine: and Israel will hear. And the sons of Jacob will be twelve. The sons of Leah, the first-born of Jacob, Reuben; and Simeon and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulon; The sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin.read more.
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali; The sons of Zilpah; Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These the sons of Jacob which were born to him in Paden Aram

And Leah will conceive and will bring forth a son, and she will call his name Reuben: for she said that Jehovah saw my affliction, for now my husband will love me. And she will yet again conceive and bear a son, and she will say that Jehovah heard that I am hated, and he will give to me this also; and she will call his name Simeon. And she will conceive yet again, and will bear a son, and she will say, The time now, my husband will join himself to me, for I bare to him three sons: for this his name was called Leviread more.
And she will conceive yet again and will bear a son, and she will say, This time I will confess to Jehovah: for this she called his name Judah; and she will stand from bearing.

And she will say, Behold my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall bring forth upon my knees, and I also shall be built from her. And she will give to him Bilhah her maid for a wife, and Jacob will go in to her. And Bilhah will conceive and will bear to Jacob a son.read more.
And Rachel will say, God judged me and also heard my voice, and he will give to me a son; for this she called his name Dan. And Bilhah, Rachel's maid will yet again conceive and bare a second son to Jacob. And Rachel will say, The wrestlings of God I wrestled with my sister; also I was able. And she will call his name Naphtali. And Leah will see that she stood from bringing forth, and she will take Zilpah her maid and will give her to Jacob for a wife. And Zilpah, Leah's maid, will bear to Jacob a son. And Leah will say, In good fortune: and she will call his name Gad. And Zilpah, Leah's maid, will bear a second son to Jacob. And Leah will say, In my happiness, for the daughters will pronounce me happy; and she will call his name Asher.

And they will remove from the House of God; and there will be yet a measure of land to come to Ephrath: and Rachel will bring forth, and she will be hard in bringing forth. And it will be in her being hard in bringing forth, and the midwife will say to her, Thou shalt not fear, for also this a son to thee. And it will be in her soul going forth (for she will die) and she will call his name the son of my strength: and his father called him the son of the right hand.

And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she brought forth to Jacob, will go forth to see the daughters of the land. And Shechem will see her, the son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the land; will take her, and lie with her, and will humble her.

And Jacob heard that he defiled Dinah his daughter: and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob was silent till their coming.

And Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, for to him he was the son of old age: and he made for him a tunic (reaching to the soles of the feet). And his brethren will see that their father loved him above all his brethren, and they will hate him, and will not be able to speak to him for peace.

And they will take Joseph's tunic, and will slaughter a he-goat of the goats, and will dip the tunic in the blood. And they will send the tunic, reaching down to the soles of the feet., and will bring to their father, and they will say, We found this: recognise now, is this thy son's tunic or not? And he will recognise it, and will say, My son's tunic an evil beast devoured him: tearing in pieces, he tare Joseph in pieces.read more.
And Jacob will rend his garments, and will put sackcloth upon his loins, and will mourn for his son many days. And all his sons and all his daughters, will rise up to comfort him; and he will refuse to be comforted; and will say, For I will go down to my son mourning to hadas; and his father will weep for him.

And when Jacob shall see there is selling in Egypt, Jacob will say to his sons, For what will ye look? Behold I heard that there is selling in Egypt: go ye there, and buy grain for us from thence; and we shall live and shall not die. And Joseph's brethren, the ten, will go to buy grain from Egyptread more.
And Benjamin, Josephs brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest harm should meet him.

And we said to my lord, There is a father to us, an old man, and a child of old age, a little one: and his brother died, and he will be left alone to his mother; and his father loved him.

And Joseph will harness his chariot, and will go up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he will be seen to him: and he will fall upon his neck, and will yet weep upon his neck And Israel will say to Joseph, Now will I die, after I saw thy face, because thou art yet living.

And they will say to him all the words of Joseph which he spake to them: and he will see the wagons which Joseph sent to take him, and the spirit of Jacob their father will live. And Israel will say, It is much: Joseph my son is yet living: I will go and see him before I shall die.

And Israel will remove and all which is to him, and he will come to the well of the oath, and he will sacrifice sacrifices to the God of his father Isaak. And God will speak to Israel in a vision of the night, and he will say, Jacob! Jacob! and he will say, Behold me. And he will say, I am God, the God of thy father: thou shalt not fear going down to Egypt; for I will there make thee into a great nation.read more.
I will go down with thee to Egypt, and I will raise thee up; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes

And Joseph will place his father and his brethren, and will give to them possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, according to what Pharaoh commanded.

By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons; and worshipped, upon the extremity of his rod.

And he will bless Joseph, and will say, God, before whom my fathers went, Abraham and Isaak, the God having fed me, from ever since I was till this day. The messenger redeeming me from all evil, shall bless the youths; and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak and they shall be increased into a multitude in the midst of the earth. And Joseph will see that his father will put his right hand upon Ephraim's head, and it will be evil in his eyes: and he will take hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.read more.
And Joseph will say to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head. And his father will refuse and will say, I knew my son, I knew: this also shall be into a people, and this also shall be great: and yet his brother the small, shall be great more than he, and his seed shall be a fulness of nations. And he will bless them in that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, Will God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he will set Ephraim before Manasseh.

And Jacob will call to his sons, and will say, Be ye gathered together, and I will announce to you what shall happen to you in the last part of the days. Be gathered together, and hear ye sons of Jacob, and hear to Israel your father. Reuben, my first-born, thou my strength, and the beginning of my strength, the abundance of elevation, and the abundance of mightread more.
Vain glorious as water, thou shalt not be preeminent; for thou didst go up out of thy father's. bed; then didst thou defile, going up to my couch. Simon and Levi brethren; their swords instruments of violence. My soul shall not come into their consultation; in their assembly, my honor shall not be united, for in their anger they killed a man and in their will, houghed a bullock. Cursed their anger, for it was hard; and their wrath, for it was hardened: I will divide them in Jacob, and I will disperse them in Israel Judah, thee, thee shall thy brethren praise; thy hand upon the back of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall worship before thee. Judah, a lion's whelp; from the green leaf, my son, thou didst go up: bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up? The rod shall not depart from Judah, and a leader from between his feet, till that Shiloh shall come: and to him the obedience of the nations. Binding his colt to the vine, and to the purple vine the son of the she-ass; he washed in wine his garment, and his clothing in the blood of grapes. The eyes flashing from wine, the teeth white from milk. Zebulon shall dwell by the coast of the sea; and he by a coast of ships, and the extremities, even to Zidon. Issachar, an ass; a heap of bone lying down in the midst of the tribes. And he will see the rest that it was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and he extended his shoulder to bear, and he will be a servant to tribute. Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent upon. the way, creeping upon the path, biting the heels of the horse and his beast for riding shall fall behind. I waited for thy deliverance, Jehovah. Gad, a troop, shall press upon him; and this shall press upon the heel. From Asher his bread, fat, and he will give the dainties of a king. Naphtali a mighty shoot, giving fair words. Joseph a fruitful son, a fruitful son upon a fountain, the daughters mounting over a wall. This adversary will embitter him, and the lords of the arrows will lie in wait. And his bow will dwell in strength, and the seed of his hands will be firm by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob; from whence the shepherd, the stone of Israel By the God of thy father, and he will help thee, and by the Almighty, and he will bless thee with the blessing of the heavens above, the blessing of the sea lying under, the blessing of the breasts and the womb. The blessings of thy father were strong above the blessings of the everlasting mountains; the delight of the eternal hills, they shall be upon the head of Joseph and upon the crown of the head of him separated from his brethren. Benjamin, a Wolf, tearing in pieces; in the morning will he eat the prey, and at evening he will divide the prey. 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.

And Jacob will live in the land of Egypt seventeen years: and the days of the years of the life of Jacob will be seven years and forty years, and a hundred years. And the days of Israel will draw near to die: and he will call to his son Joseph, and will say to him, If now I found grace in thine eyes, put now thy hand under my thigh, and thou shalt do to me kindness and truth: now thou shalt not bury me in Egypt I will lie down with my fathers, and thou shalt lift me up out of Egypt, and thou shalt bury me in their grave. And he will say, I will do according to thy word.

And he will command them, and will say to them, I am added to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite. In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamra in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, for the possession of a grave. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaak and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.read more.
The possession of the field and the cave which is in it, from the sons of Heth. And Jacob will finish to command his sons, and he will gather his feet to the bed, and will expire, and will be gathered to his people.

And Joseph will command his servants the physicians, to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed IsraeL And they will fill up forty days for him: for so will they fill up the days of the embalmed: and the Egyptians will weep for him seventy days.