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Genesis 49 NASB 1995
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id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/genesis/49.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>Israel’s Prophecy concerning His Sons</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>“Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob;<br> And listen to Israel your father.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>“Reuben, you are my firstborn;<br> My might and the beginning of my strength,<br> Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>“Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence,<br> Because you went up to your father’s bed;<br> Then you defiled <i>it</i>—he went up to my couch.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“Simeon and Levi are brothers;<br> Their swords are implements of violence.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>“Let my soul not enter into their council;<br> Let not my glory be united with their assembly;<br> Because in their anger they slew men,<br> And in their self-will they lamed oxen.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>“Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce;<br> And their wrath, for it is cruel.<br> I will disperse them in Jacob,<br> And scatter them in Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>“Judah, your brothers shall praise you;<br> Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;<br> Your father’s sons shall bow down to you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>“Judah is a lion’s whelp;<br> From the prey, my son, you have gone up.<br> He couches, he lies down as a lion,<br> And as a lion, who dares rouse him up?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>“The scepter shall not depart from Judah,<br> Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,<br> Until Shiloh comes,<br> And to him <i>shall be</i> the obedience of the peoples.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>“He ties <i>his</i> foal to the vine,<br> And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;<br> He washes his garments in wine,<br> And his robes in the blood of grapes.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“His eyes are dull from wine,<br> And his teeth white from milk.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“Zebulun will dwell at the seashore;<br> And he <i>shall be</i> a haven for ships,<br> And his flank <i>shall be</i> toward Sidon.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“Issachar is a strong donkey,<br> Lying down between the sheepfolds.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“When he saw that a resting place was good<br> And that the land was pleasant,<br> He bowed his shoulder to bear <i>burdens,</i><br> And became a slave at forced labor.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>“Dan shall judge his people,<br> As one of the tribes of Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“Dan shall be a serpent in the way,<br> A horned snake in the path,<br> That bites the horse’s heels,<br> So that his rider falls backward.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“For Your salvation I wait, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“As for Gad, raiders shall raid him,<br> But he will raid <i>at</i> their heels.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“As for Asher, his food shall be rich,<br> And he will yield royal dainties.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>“Naphtali is a doe let loose,<br> He gives beautiful words.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>“Joseph is a fruitful bough,<br> A fruitful bough by a spring;<br> <i>Its</i> branches run over a wall.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>“The archers bitterly attacked him,<br> And shot <i>at him</i> and harassed him;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>But his bow remained firm,<br> And his arms were agile,<br> From the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob<br> (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>From the God of your father who helps you,<br> And by the Almighty who blesses you<br> <i>With</i> blessings of heaven above,<br> Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,<br> Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>“The blessings of your father<br> Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors<br> Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills;<br> May they be on the head of Joseph,<br> And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;<br> In the morning he devours the prey,<br> And in the evening he divides the spoil.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-30.htm" target="_top"><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 along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-31.htm" target="_top"><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— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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