• Genesis 49:2

    Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

  • Genesis 49:3

    Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

  • Genesis 49:4

    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.

  • Genesis 49:5

    Simeon and Levi are brethren; instrumentsa of cruelty are in their habitations.

  • Genesis 49:6

    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.

  • Genesis 49:7

    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.

  • Genesis 49:8

    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.

  • Genesis 49:9

    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?

  • Genesis 49:10

    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.

  • Genesis 49:11

    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:

  • Genesis 49:12

    His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

  • Genesis 49:13

    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.

  • Genesis 49:14

    Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

  • Genesis 49:15

    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.

  • Genesis 49:16

    Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

  • Genesis 49:17

    Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adderb in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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