English Bible
Genesis 49
Big screen- 1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
- 2Gather yourselves together, and hear, all of you sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
- 3Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
- 4Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch.
- 5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
- 6O 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 self-will they dug down a wall.
- 7Cursed 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.
- 8Judah, you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of yours enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you.
- 9Judah is a lion's offspring: 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?
- 10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
- 11Binding 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:
- 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
- 13Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
- 14Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
- 15And 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.
- 16Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
- 17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
- 18I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.
- 19Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
- 20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
- 21Naphtali is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words.
- 22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
- 23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
- 24But 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:)
- 25Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
- 26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my conceivers unto 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.
- 27Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
- 28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spoke unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
- 29And 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,
- 30In 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.
- 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
- 32The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
- 33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered unto his people.