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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 49 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/genesis/49.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/49.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/49-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Genesis 49</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/48.htm" title="Genesis 48">◄</a> Genesis 49 <a href="../genesis/50.htm" title="Genesis 50">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: ‘Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the end of days. <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;</div><div class="po2">And hearken unto Israel your father.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Reuben, thou art my first-born,</div><div class="po2">My might, and the first-fruits of my strength;</div><div class="po2">The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency;</div><div class="po2">Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed;</div><div class="po2">Then defiledst thou it—he went up to my couch.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Simeon and Levi are brethren;</div><div class="po2">Weapons of violence their kinship.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let my soul not come into their council;</div><div class="po2">Unto their assembly let my glory not be not united;</div><div class="po2">For in their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they houghed oxen.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce,</div><div class="po2">And their wrath, for it was cruel;</div><div class="po2">I will divide them in Jacob,</div><div class="po2">And scatter them in Israel</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise;</div><div class="po2">Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies;</div><div class="po2">Thy father’s sons shall bow down before thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Judah is a lion’s whelp;</div><div class="po2">From the prey, my son, thou art gone up.</div><div class="po2">He stooped down, he couched as a lion,</div><div class="po2">And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,</div><div class="po2">Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,</div><div class="po2">As long as men come to Shiloh;</div><div class="po2">And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Binding his foal unto the vine,</div><div class="po2">And his ass’s colt unto the choice vine;</div><div class="po2">He washeth his garments in wine,</div><div class="po2">And his vesture in the blood of grapes;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His eyes shall be red with wine,</div><div class="po2">And his teeth white with milk.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea,</div><div class="po2">And he shall be a shore for ships,</div><div class="po2">And his flank shall be upon Zidon.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Issachar is a large-boned ass,</div><div class="po2">Couching down between the sheep-folds.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For he saw a resting-place that it was good,</div><div class="po2">And the land that it was pleasant;</div><div class="po2">And he bowed his shoulder to bear,</div><div class="po2">And became a servant under task-work</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Dan shall judge his people,</div><div class="po2">As one of the tribes of Israel.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Dan shall be a serpent in the way,</div><div class="po2">A horned snake in the path,</div><div class="po2">That biteth the horse’s heels,</div><div class="po2">So that his rider falleth backward.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I wait for Thy salvation, O Lord.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Gad, <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>a troop <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">b</a></span>shall troop upon him;</div><div class="po2">But he shall troop upon their heel.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As for Asher, his bread shall be fat,</div><div class="po2">And he shall yield royal dainties.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Naphtali is a hind let loose:</div><div class="po2">He giveth goodly words.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Joseph is a fruitful vine,</div><div class="po2">A fruitful vine by a fountain;</div><div class="po2">Its branches run over the wall.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The archers have dealt bitterly with him,</div><div class="po2">And shot at him, and hated him;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But his bow abode firm,</div><div class="po2">And the arms of his hands were made supple,</div><div class="po2">By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,</div><div class="po2">From thence, from the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee,</div><div class="po2">And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee,</div><div class="po2">With blessings of heaven above,</div><div class="po2">Blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath,</div><div class="po2">Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The blessings of thy father</div><div class="po2">Are mighty beyond the blessings of my progenitors</div><div class="po2">Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills;</div><div class="po2">They shall be on the head of Joseph,</div><div class="po2">And on the crown of the head of the prince among his brethren.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth;</div><div class="po2">In the morning he devoureth the prey,</div><div class="po2">And at even he divideth the spoil.’</div> <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And be 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, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>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 from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} Heb. gedud. <br>{fn: b} From the Heb. root gadad.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/48.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 48"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 48" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/50.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 50"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 50" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/genesis/49-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>