1 Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in theadays to come. |
3 4 “dUncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence, Because you went up to your father’s bed; Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch. |
6 7 “Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel. I willgdisperse them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel. |
8 9 10 “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, kUntil Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. 11 “lHe ties his foal to the vine, And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; He washes his garments in wine, And his robes in the blood of grapes. |
13 “Zebulun will dwell at the seashore; And he shall beoa haven for ships, And his flank shall be toward Sidon. |
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24 25 26 “The blessings of your father Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors Up to theadutmost bound of the everlasting hills; May they be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers. |
27 “Benjamin is aaeravenous wolf; In the morning he devours the prey, And in the evening he divides the spoil.” |
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to themafwhen he blessed them. He blessed them, every oneagwith the blessing appropriate to him. 29 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, 30 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 aahburial site. 31 There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah— 32 the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth.” 33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people. |
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