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GEN 49:1
Genesis 49:1
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And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last
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GEN 49:2
Genesis 49:2
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Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons
of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. |
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GEN 49:3
Genesis 49:3
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Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and
the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
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GEN 49:4
Genesis 49:4
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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. |
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GEN 49:5
Genesis 49:5
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Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of
cruelty are in their habitations. |
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GEN 49:6
Genesis 49:6
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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. |
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GEN 49:7
Genesis 49:7
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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. |
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GEN 49:8
Genesis 49:8
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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. |
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GEN 49:9
Genesis 49:9
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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? |
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GEN 49:10
Genesis 49:10
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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. |
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GEN 49:11
Genesis 49:11
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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: |
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GEN 49:12
Genesis 49:12
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His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth
white with milk. |
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GEN 49:13
Genesis 49:13
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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. |
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GEN 49:14
Genesis 49:14
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Issachar is a strong ass couching down between
two burdens: |
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GEN 49:15
Genesis 49:15
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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. |
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GEN 49:16
Genesis 49:16
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Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes
of Israel. |
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GEN 49:17
Genesis 49:17
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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. |
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GEN 49:18
Genesis 49:18
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I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. |
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GEN 49:19
Genesis 49:19
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Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall
overcome at the last. |
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GEN 49:20
Genesis 49:20
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Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he
shall yield royal dainties. |
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GEN 49:21
Genesis 49:21
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Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly
words. |
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GEN 49:22
Genesis 49:22
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Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful
bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: |
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GEN 49:23
Genesis 49:23
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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot
at him, and hated him: |
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GEN 49:24
Genesis 49:24
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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:) |
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GEN 49:25
Genesis 49:25
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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: |
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GEN 49:26
Genesis 49:26
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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. |
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GEN 49:27
Genesis 49:27
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Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning
he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. |
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GEN 49:28
Genesis 49:28
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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. |
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GEN 49:29
Genesis 49:29
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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, |
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GEN 49:30
Genesis 49:30
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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. |
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GEN 49:31
Genesis 49:31
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife;
there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. |
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GEN 49:32
Genesis 49:32
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The purchase of the field and of the cave that
is therein was from the children of Heth. |
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GEN 49:33
Genesis 49:33
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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. |
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