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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 WEB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</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">World English Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jacob Blesses his Sons</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>"Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>"Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>"Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."</p> <p class="reg"><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 what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.</p> <p class="hdg">The Death of Jacob</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to 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 as a burial 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>When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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