◄ Genesis 49:16 ►
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Good News Translation
"Dan will be a ruler for his people. They will be like the other tribes of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Dan, you are the tribe that will bring justice to Israel.

New American Bible
“Dan shall achieve justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

Genesis 30:6 And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.

Numbers 10:25 The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their troops, in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.

Deuteronomy 33:22 To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.

Judges 13:2,24,25 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren. . . .

Judges 15:20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

Judges 18:1,2 In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to dwell in: for unto that day they had not received their lot among the other tribes. . . .

Context
Jacob Blesses His Sons
…15He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute. 16Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.17Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:6
And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.

Genesis 49:15
He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

Genesis 49:17
Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.

Deuteronomy 33:22
To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.

Judges 18:26
And so they went on the journey they had begun. But Michas seeing that they were stronger than he, returned to his house.

Judges 18:27
And the six hundred men took the priest, and the things we spoke of before, and came to Lais, to a people that was quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword: and the city they burnt with fire,

Genesis 49:15
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