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Genesis 49

33 verses · King James Version

  1. 1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you which shall befall you in the last days.Compare translations of Genesis 49:1
  2. 2Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.Compare translations of Genesis 49:2
  3. 3Reuben, thou my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:Compare translations of Genesis 49:3
  4. 4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou he went up to my couch.Compare translations of Genesis 49:4
  5. 5Simeon and Levi brethren; instruments of cruelty their habitations.Compare translations of Genesis 49:5
  6. 6O 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.Compare translations of Genesis 49:6
  7. 7Cursed their anger, for fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.Compare translations of Genesis 49:7
  8. 8Judah, thou whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.Compare translations of Genesis 49:8
  9. 9Judah 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?Compare translations of Genesis 49:9
  10. 10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him the gathering of the peopleCompare translations of Genesis 49:10
  11. 11Binding 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:Compare translations of Genesis 49:11
  12. 12His eyes red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.Compare translations of Genesis 49:12
  13. 13Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he for an haven of ships; and his border unto Zidon.Compare translations of Genesis 49:13
  14. 14Issachar a strong ass couching down between two burdens:Compare translations of Genesis 49:14
  15. 15And he saw that rest good, and the land that pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.Compare translations of Genesis 49:15
  16. 16Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.Compare translations of Genesis 49:16
  17. 17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.Compare translations of Genesis 49:17
  18. 18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.Compare translations of Genesis 49:18
  19. 19Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.Compare translations of Genesis 49:19
  20. 20Out of Asher his bread fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.Compare translations of Genesis 49:20
  21. 21Naphtali a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.Compare translations of Genesis 49:21
  22. 22Joseph a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; branches run over the wall:Compare translations of Genesis 49:22
  23. 23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot and hated him:Compare translations of Genesis 49:23
  24. 24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty of Jacob; (from thence the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)Compare translations of Genesis 49:24
  25. 25by 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:Compare translations of Genesis 49:25
  26. 26The 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.Compare translations of Genesis 49:26
  27. 27Benjamin shall ravin a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.Compare translations of Genesis 49:27
  28. 28All these the twelve tribes of Israel: and this that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.Compare translations of Genesis 49:28
  29. 29And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that in the field of Ephron the Hittite,Compare translations of Genesis 49:29
  30. 30In the cave that in the field of Machpelah, which before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.Compare translations of Genesis 49:30
  31. 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.Compare translations of Genesis 49:31
  32. 32The purchase of the field and of the cave that therein from the children of Heth.Compare translations of Genesis 49:32
  33. 33And 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.Compare translations of Genesis 49:33