Genesis 49 KJV
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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. Jacob
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. Jacob
¶ Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Reuben
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.
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.
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. Jacob
¶ 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. Judah
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? Judah
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]. Judah Jesus Christ Shiloh Shiloh
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:
His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
¶ Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between two burdens: Issachar
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.
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. Dan
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. God
¶ Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Gad
¶ Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Asher
¶ Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. Naphtali
¶ Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall: Joseph
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him:
[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: God
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. Joseph
¶ Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. Benjamin
¶ 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. Death of Jacob Jacob
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, Death of Jacob Ephron Heth
The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children of Heth. Heth
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. Lifetime of Jacob Jacob