<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000001">Genesis</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1001524">Chapter 49</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1001501">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1001558">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>The Patriarchs</em></p><p><em>Joseph</em></p><p><em>Jacob Blesses His Twelve Sons and their Posterity</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001525">1</a>. AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001526">2</a>. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001527">3</a>. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001528">4</a>. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001529">5</a>. Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001530">6</a>. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001531">7</a>. Cursed 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001532">8</a>. Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001533">9</a>. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001534">10</a>. The 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001535">11</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001536">12</a>. His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001537">13</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001538">14</a>. Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001539">15</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001540">16</a>. Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001541">17</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001542">18</a>. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001543">19</a>. Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001544">20</a>. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001545">21</a>. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001546">22</a>. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001547">23</a>. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001548">24</a>. But 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:)</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001549">25</a>. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001550">26</a>. The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001551">27</a>. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001552">28</a>. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001553">29</a>. 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,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001554">30</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001555">31</a>. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001556">32</a>. The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1001557">33</a>. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.</li>
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