And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell youthatwhich shall befall you in the last days.
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
Reuben, thouartmy firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thouit:he went up to my couch.
Simeon and Leviarebrethren; instruments of crueltyare intheir habitations.
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.
Cursedbetheir anger, forit wasfierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Judah, thouart hewhom thy brethren shall praise: thy handshall bein the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
Judahisa 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?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto himshallthe gathering of the peoplebe.
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:
His eyesshall bered with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and heshall befor an haven of ships; and his bordershall beunto Zidon.
Issacharisa strong ass couching down between two burdens:
And he saw that restwasgood, and the land thatit waspleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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.
I have waited for thy salvation, OLORD.
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Out of Asher his breadshall befat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Naphtaliisa hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Josephisa fruitful bough,evena fruitful bough by a well;whosebranches run over the wall:
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shotat him, and hated him:
But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mightyGodof Jacob; (from thenceisthe shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Evenby 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:
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.
Benjamin shall ravinasa wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
All thesearethe twelve tribes of Israel: and thisis itthat their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave thatisin the field of Ephron the Hittite,
In the cave thatisin the field of Machpelah, whichisbefore Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
The purchase of the field and of the cave thatisthereinwasfrom the children of Heth.
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.