01_GEN_49_01 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 .
01_GEN_49_02 gather yourselves together , And hear , ye sons of Jacob ; And hearken unto Israel your Father .
01_GEN_49_03 Reuben , thou [ art ] my firstborn , my might , And the beginning of my strength , the excellency of dignity , And the excellency of power :
01_GEN_49_04 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 .
01_GEN_49_05 Simeon And Levi [ are ] brethren ; instruments of cruelty [ are in ] their habitations .
01_GEN_49_06 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 .
01_GEN_49_07 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 .
01_GEN_49_08 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 .
01_GEN_49_09 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 ?
01_GEN_49_10 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 ] .
01_GEN_49_11 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 :
01_GEN_49_12 his eyes [ shall be ] red with wine , And his teeth white with milk .
01_GEN_49_13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea ; And he [ shall be ] for an haven of ships ; And his border [ shall be ] unto Zidon .
01_GEN_49_14 Issachar [ Is ] A strong ass couching down between two burdens :
01_GEN_49_15 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 .
01_GEN_49_16 Dan shall judge his people , as one of the tribes of Israel .
01_GEN_49_17 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 .
01_GEN_49_18 I have waited for thy salvation , O LORD .
01_GEN_49_19 Gad , A troop shall overcome him : but he shall overcome at the last .
01_GEN_49_20 out of Asher his bread [ shall be ] fat , And he shall yield royal dainties .
01_GEN_49_21 Naphtali [ Is ] A hind let Loose : he giveth goodly words .
01_GEN_49_22 Joseph [ Is ] A fruitful bough , [ even ] A fruitful bough by A Well ; [ whose ] branches run over the wall :
01_GEN_49_23 the archers have sorely grieved him , And shot [ at him ] , And hated him :
01_GEN_49_24 but his bow abode in strength , And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [ God ] of Jacob ; [ from thence [ Is ] the Shepherd , the stone of Israel : ]
01_GEN_49_25 [ 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 :
01_GEN_49_26 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 .
01_GEN_49_27 Benjamin shall ravin [ as ] A wolf : in the morning he shall devour the prey , And at night he shall divide the spoil .
01_GEN_49_28 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 .
01_GEN_49_29 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 ,
01_GEN_49_30 in the cave that [ Is ] in the field of Machpelah , which [ Is ] before Mamre , in the land of Canaan , which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for A possession of A buryingplace .
01_GEN_49_31 there they buried Abraham And Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac And Rebekah his wife ; And there I buried Leah .
01_GEN_49_32 the purchase of the field And of the cave that [ Is ] therein [ was ] from the children of Heth .
01_GEN_49_33 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 .