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because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou 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 brethren: instruments of cruelty are in, their habitations.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>O my soul, come not thou into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.</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, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thy enemies: thy father's children shall bow down before thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou hast gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion: who shall rouse him up?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh shall come: and to him shall be the gathering of the people.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes 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 shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be to Zidon.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Dan shall 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 shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I have waited for thy salvation O LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose 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 sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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:</p> <p class="reg"><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, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, 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 thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall 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 it which their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.</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>And he charged 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 of 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 purchase of the field and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/49-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered to his people.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Webster Bible Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><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 src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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