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49:1  And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
49:2  Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and listen to Israel your father.
49:3  Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
49:4  Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch.
49:5  Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
49:6  O my soul, come not you into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they dig down a wall.
49:7  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.
49:8  Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you.
49:9  Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
49:10  The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be.
49:11  Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
49:12  His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
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 to Zidon.
49:14  Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
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 to tribute.
49:16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
49:17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
49:18  I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.
49:19  Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
49:20  Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
49:21  Naphtali is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words.
49:22  Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
49:23  The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
49:24  But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
49:25  Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
49:26  The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to 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 brothers.
49:27  Benjamin shall shred as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
49:28  All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
49:29  And he charged 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,
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 burial plot.
49:31  There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
49:32  The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
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 to his people.