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You [are] my firstborn, "" My power, and beginning of my strength, "" The abundance of exaltation, "" And the abundance of strength;<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Unstable as water, you are not abundant; For you have gone up your father’s bed; Then you have defiled [it]: He went up my couch!<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Simeon and Levi [are] brothers! Instruments of violence—their espousals!<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Into their secret, do not come, O my soul! Do not be united to their assembly, O my glory; For in their anger they slew a man, "" And in their self-will eradicated a prince.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Cursed [is] their anger, for [it is] fierce, "" And their wrath, for [it is] sharp; I divide them in Jacob, "" And I scatter them in Israel.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Judah! Your brothers praise you! Your hand [is] on the neck of your enemies, "" Sons of your father bow themselves to you.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A lion’s whelp [is] Judah, "" For prey, my son, you have gone up; He has bent, he has crouched as a lion, "" And as a lioness; who causes him to arise?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The scepter does not turn aside from Judah, "" And a lawgiver from between his feet, "" Until his Seed comes; And His [is] the obedience of peoples.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Binding to the vine his donkey, "" And to the choice vine the colt of his donkey, "" He has washed in wine his clothing, "" And in the blood of grapes his covering;<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Red [are] eyes with wine, "" And white [are] teeth with milk!<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Zebulun dwells at a haven of the seas, "" And he [is] for a haven of ships; And his side [is] to Sidon.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Issachar [is] a strong donkey, "" Crouching between the two folds;<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he sees rest, that [it is] good, "" And the land, that [it is] pleasant, "" And he inclines his shoulder to bear, "" And is a servant for tribute.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Dan judges his people, "" As one of the tribes of Israel;<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Dan is a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, "" Which is biting the horse’s heels, "" And its rider falls backward.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For Your salvation I have waited, YHWH!<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Gad! A troop assaults him, "" But he assaults last.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Out of Asher his bread [is] fat; And he gives delicacies of a king.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Naphtali [is] a doe sent away, "" Who is giving beautiful young ones.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Joseph [is] a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, "" Daughters step over the wall;<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And embitter him indeed, they have striven, "" Indeed, archers hate him;<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And his bow abides in strength, "" And strengthened are the arms of his hands "" By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, "" From where is a shepherd, a son of Israel.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>By the God of your father who helps you, "" And the Mighty One who blesses you, "" Blessings of the heavens from above, "" Blessings of the deep lying under, "" Blessings of breasts and womb—<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Your father’s blessings have been mighty "" Above the blessings of my progenitors, "" To the limit of the perpetual heights "" They are for the head of Joseph, "" And for the crown of the one "" Separate [from] his brothers.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Benjamin! A wolf tears; In the morning he eats prey, "" And at evening he apportions spoil.”<p> <A name="29"></a><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] that which their father has spoken to them, and he blesses them; each according to his blessing he has blessed them.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And he commands them and says to them, “I am being gathered to my people; bury me by my fathers, at the cave which [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite; <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>in the cave which [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place; <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>(there they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah); <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>the purchase of the field and of the cave which [is] in it, [is] from sons of Heth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Jacob finishes commanding his sons, and gathers up his feet to the bed, and expires, and is gathered to his people.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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