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49 : 1 Then Jacob called for his sons and said: "Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.
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49 : 2 Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
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49 : 3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
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49 : 4 Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father`s bed, onto my couch and defiled it.
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49 : 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers-- their swords are weapons of violence.
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49 : 6 Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.
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49 : 7 Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.
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49 : 8 Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father`s sons will bow down to you.
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49 : 9 You are a lion`s cub, O Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness--who dares to rouse him?
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49 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler`s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.
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49 : 11 He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
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49 : 12 His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.
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49 : 13 Zebulun will live by the seashore and become a haven for ships; his border will extend toward Sidon.
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49 : 14 Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.
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49 : 15 When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor.
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49 : 16 Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
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49 : 17 Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse`s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
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49 : 18 I look for your deliverance, O LORD.
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49 : 19 Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack them at their heels.
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49 : 20 Asher`s food will be rich; he will provide delicacies fit for a king.
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49 : 21 Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
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49 : 22 Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.
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49 : 23 With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility.
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49 : 24 But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
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49 : 25 because of your father`s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breast and womb.
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49 : 26 Your father`s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.
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49 : 27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.
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49 : 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him.
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49 : 29 Then he gave them these instructions: "I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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49 : 30 the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.
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49 : 31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah.
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49 : 32 The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites. "
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49 : 33 When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
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