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Then Jacob
summoned
his sons
and said,
"Assemble
yourselves that I may tell
you what
will befall
you in the days
to come.
2
"Gather
together and hear,
O sons
of Jacob;
And listen
to Israel
your father.
3
"Reuben,
you are my firstborn;
My might
and the beginning
of my strength,
Preeminent
in dignity
and preeminent
in power.
4
"Uncontrolled
as water,
you shall not have preeminence,
Because
you went
up to your father's
bed;
Then
you defiled
it-- he went
up to my couch.
5
"Simeon
and Levi
are brothers;
Their swords
are implements
of violence.
6
"Let my soul
not enter
into their council;
Let not my glory
be united
with their assembly;
Because
in their anger
they slew
men,
And in their self-will
they lamed
oxen.
7
"Cursed
be their anger,
for it is fierce;
And their wrath,
for it is cruel.
I will disperse
them in Jacob,
And scatter
them in Israel.
8
"Judah,
your brothers
shall praise
you; Your hand
shall be on the neck
of your enemies;
Your father's
sons
shall bow down
to you.
9
"Judah
is a lion's
whelp;
From the prey,
my son,
you have gone
up. He couches,
he lies down
as a lion,
And
as a lion,
who
dares rouse
him up?
10
"The scepter
shall not depart
from Judah,
Nor
the ruler's staff
from between
his feet,
Until
Shiloh
comes,
And to him shall be the obedience
of the peoples.
11
"He ties
his foal
to the vine,
And his donkey's
colt
to the choice vine;
He washes
his garments
in wine,
And his robes
in the blood
of grapes.
12
"His eyes
are dull
from wine,
And his teeth
white
from milk.
13
"Zebulun
will dwell
at the seashore;
And he shall be a haven
for ships,
And his flank
shall be toward
Sidon.
14
"Issachar
is a strong
donkey,
Lying down
between
the sheepfolds.
15
"When he saw
that a resting place
was good
And that the land
was pleasant,
He bowed
his shoulder
to bear
burdens, And became
a slave
at forced labor.
16
"Dan
shall judge
his people,
As one
of the tribes
of Israel.
17
"Dan
shall be a serpent
in the way,
A horned snake
in the path,
That bites
the horse's
heels,
So that his rider
falls
backward.
18
"For Your salvation
I wait,
O LORD.
19
"As for Gad,
raiders
shall raid
him, But he will raid
at their heels.
20
"As for Asher,
his food
shall be rich,
And he will yield
royal
dainties.
21
"Naphtali
is a doe
let loose,
He gives
beautiful
words.
22
"Joseph
is a fruitful
bough
,
A fruitful
bough
by a spring;
Its branches
run
over
a wall.
23
"The archers
bitterly
attacked him, And shot
at him and harassed
him;
24
But his bow
remained
firm,
And his arms
were agile,
From the hands
of the Mighty One
of Jacob
(From there
is the Shepherd,
the Stone
of Israel),
25
From the God
of your father
who helps
you, And by the Almighty
who blesses
you With blessings
of heaven
above,
Blessings
of the deep
that lies
beneath,
Blessings
of the breasts
and of the womb.
26
"The blessings
of your father
Have surpassed
the blessings
of my ancestors
Up to the utmost bound
of the everlasting
hills;
May they be on the head
of Joseph,
And on the crown of the head
of the one distinguished
among his brothers.
27
"Benjamin
is a ravenous
wolf;
In the morning
he devours
the prey,
And in the evening
he divides
the spoil."
28
All
these
are the twelve
tribes
of Israel,
and this
is what
their father
said
to them when he blessed
them. He blessed
them, every one
with the blessing
appropriate to him.
29
Then he charged
them and said
to them, "I am about to be gathered
to my people;
bury
me with my fathers
in the cave
that is in the field
of Ephron
the Hittite,
30
in the cave
that is in the field
of Machpelah,
which
is before
Mamre,
in the land
of Canaan,
which
Abraham
bought
along with the field
from Ephron
the Hittite
for a burial
site.
31
"There
they buried
Abraham
and his wife
Sarah,
there
they buried
Isaac
and his wife
Rebekah,
and
there
I buried
Leah--
32
the field
and the cave
that is in it, purchased
from the sons
of Heth."
33
When Jacob
finished
charging
his sons,
he drew
his feet
into the bed
and breathed his last,
and was gathered
to his people.
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