49Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.H3290H7121H1121H559H622H5046H7122H319H3117

2"Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.H6908H8085H1121H3290H8085H3478H1

3"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.H7205H1060H3581H7225H202H3499H7613H3499H5794

4Unstable 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!H6349H4325H3498H5927H1H4904H2490H5927H3326

5"Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.H8095H3878H251H3627H2555H4380

6Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.H5315H935H5475H6951H3519H3161H639H2026H376H7522H6131H7794

7Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.H779H639H5794H5678H7185H2505H3290H6327H3478

8"Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.H3063H251H3034H3027H6203H341H1H1121H7812

9Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?H3063H738H1482H2964H1121H5927H3766H7257H738H3833H6965

10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.H7626H5493H3063H2710H7272H3588H7886H935H3349H5971

11Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes.H631H5895H1612H860H1121H8321H3526H3830H3196H5497H1818H6025

12His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.H5869H2447H3196H8127H3836H2461

13"Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.H2074H7931H2348H3220H2348H591H3411H6721

14"Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.H3485H1634H2543H7257H4942

15He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant at forced labor.H7200H4496H2896H776H5276H5186H7926H5445H5647H4522

16"Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.H1835H1777H5971H259H7626H3478

17Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.H1835H5175H1870H8207H734H5391H5483H6119H7392H5307H268

18I wait for your salvation, O LORD.H6960H3444H3068

19"Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.H1410H1416H1464H1464H6119

20"Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal delicacies.H836H3899H8082H5414H4428H4574

21"Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful fawns.H5321H355H7971H5414H8233H561

22"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.H3130H6509H1121H6509H1121H5869H1323H6805H7791

23The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely,H1167H2671H4843H7232H7852

24yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),H7198H3427H386H2220H3027H6339H3027H46H3290H7462H68H3478

25by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.H410H1H5826H854H7706H1288H1293H8064H5920H1293H8415H7257H1293H7699H7356

26The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.H1293H1H1396H1293H2029H8379H5769H1389H7218H3130H6936H5139H251

27"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil."H1144H2963H2061H1242H398H5706H6153H2505H7998

28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.H6240H8147H7626H3478H1H1696H1288H834H376H1293H1288

29Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,H6680H559H622H5971H6912H1H4631H7704H6085H2850

30in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.H4631H7704H4375H6440H4471H776H3667H85H7069H7704H6085H2850H272H6913

31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah—H6912H85H8283H802H6912H3327H7259H802H6912H3812

32the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites."H4735H7704H4631H1121H2845

33When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.H3290H3615H6680H1121H622H7272H4296H1478H622H5971