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Genesis

ESV

Chapter 49

¹Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the latter days. ²Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father. ³“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power. ⁴Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it—he went up to my couch! ⁵“Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. ⁶May my soul never come into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen. ⁷Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. ⁸“Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you. ⁹Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up? ¹⁰The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. ¹¹He tethers his donkey to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choicest branch; he washes his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes. ¹²His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. ¹³“Zebulun shall dwell at the seashore; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be toward Sidon. ¹⁴“Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds. ¹⁵He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant at forced labor. ¹⁶“Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward. ¹⁸I wait for your salvation, O LORD. ¹⁹“Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels. ²⁰“Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal delicacies. ²¹“Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful fawns. ²²“Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall. ²³The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him; ²⁴yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel), ²⁵by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. ²⁶The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers. ²⁷“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.” ²⁸All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one of them with the blessing appropriate to him. ²⁹Then he commanded 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, ³⁰in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. ³¹There Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried. There Isaac and Rebekah his wife were buried, and there I buried Leah— ³²the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.” ³³When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.