CINXE.COM
Genesis 49 New Heart English Bible
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 New Heart English Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NHEB</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">New Heart English Bible</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Jacob summoned his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together so that I may tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Assemble yourselves and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the the firstfruits of my virility, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Uncontrolled as the waters, you will not have excel, because you went up to your father's bed, you went up and defiled my couch.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>May I never enter their council. May my honor never be joined with their assembly. For in their anger they killed men, and for pleasure they hamstrung oxen.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Cursed be their anger, for it has been fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob,and scatter them in Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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抯 sons will bow down before you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Judah is a lion抯 cub. From the prey, my son, you rise up. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler抯 staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. And it is he whom the peoples will obey.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey抯 colt to the choice vine. He will wash his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His eyes will be darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Zebulun will dwell at the seashore, and he will be a harbor for ships, and his border will be at Sidon.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Issachar is a strong donkey lying down between the saddlebags.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When he sees a good resting place, that the land is pleasant, he will bend his back to the burden, and become a slave doing forced labor.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Dan will be a serpent on the road, a viper by the path, that bites the horse抯 heels so that his rider falls backward.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I wait for your salvation, God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will raid at their heels.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Asher抯 food will be rich, and he will provide royal delicacies.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a spring. His branches run over a wall.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The archers will attack him with bitterness, and shoot at him, and harass him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Yet his bow will remain steady, and his arms will be made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>by the God of your father, who will help you, and El Shaddai, who will bless you with blessings of the sky above, blessings of the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and of the womb.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, and the bounty of the everlasting hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of the prince among his brothers.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey, and at evening he will divide the plunder."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-28.htm"><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 each one with his own individual blessing. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then 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 Hethite, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hethite as a burial place. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the sons of Heth." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/49-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>When Jacob finished instructing his sons, he drew his legs up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. Mitchell.<br />Public Domain 2008-2024<br /><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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/mpc/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"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>