BERESHITH - GENESIS 49
Yacob Calls His Sons To Bless Them
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¶ And Yacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
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Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Yacob; and hearken unto Yisrael your father.
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Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
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Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you wentest up to your father's bed; then defiledst you it: he went up to my couch.
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¶ Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
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O my soul, come not you into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
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Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Yacob, and scatter them in Yisrael.
Yahudah Blessind
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¶ Yahudah, you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you.
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Yahudah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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The sceptre shall not depart from Yahudah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
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Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
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His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Zebulun, Issachar, Dan Blessind
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¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
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Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
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And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
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Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Yisrael.
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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.
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I have waited for your salvation, O YAHWEH.
Gad, Asher, Naphtali Blessind
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Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
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Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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Naphtali is a hind let loose: he gives beautiful words.
Yoseph And Benjamin Blessind
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¶ Yoseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
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But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Yacob; from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Yisrael:
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Even by YAHWEH of your father, who shall help you; and by El Shadday, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
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The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Yoseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
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Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Yacob's Charge Respecting His Burial, His Death
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¶ All these are the twelve tribes of Yisrael: and this is it that their father spoke unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
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And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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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 buryingplace.
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Yitschaq and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
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And when Yacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the soul, and was gathered unto his people.