Genesis 49:16
New International Version
“Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

New Living Translation
“Dan will govern his people, like any other tribe in Israel.

English Standard Version
“Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

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

New King James Version
“Dan shall judge his people As one of the tribes of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
“Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

NASB 1995
“Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

NASB 1977
“Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Dan shall render justice to his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

Amplified Bible
“Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

Christian Standard Bible
Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

American Standard Version
Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Dan shall judge his people, as one tribe too in Israel.

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

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

English Revised Version
Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"[Dan] will hand down decisions for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Good News Translation
"Dan will be a ruler for his people. They will be like the other tribes of Israel.

International Standard Version
"Dan will judge his people as one of Israel's tribes.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

Literal Standard Version
Dan judges his people, | As one of the tribes of Israel;

Majority Standard Bible
Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

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

NET Bible
Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

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

New Heart English Bible
Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

World English Bible
“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
Dan doth judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel;

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Context
Jacob Blesses His Sons
15He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant. 16Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 17He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.…

Cross References
Genesis 30:6
Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son." So she named him Dan.

Genesis 49:15
He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

Genesis 49:17
He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Deuteronomy 33:22
Concerning Dan he said: "Dan is a lion's cub, leaping out of Bashan."

Judges 18:26
So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.

Judges 18:27
After they had taken Micah's idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Genesis 30:6
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Numbers 10:25
And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Deuteronomy 33:22
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

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Genesis 49
1. Jacob calls his sons to bless them.
3. Their blessing in particular.
29. He charges them about his burial.
33. He dies.














(16, 17) Dan.--In passing on to the sons of the handmaids it was necessary to assure them of an independent rank among their brethren. The four tribes descended from them did always hold an inferior position, but Jacob by his words to Dan prevented their ever becoming subject states. Playing, then, upon the name Dan (a judge), he says that he shall judge his people as a distinct and separate tribe, possessed of all those rights of self-government and tribal independence which this rank implied. It seems also that Dan's symbol was a serpent, and from this Jacob prophesies that though too weak a tribe to take the foremost place in war, yet that Dan should not be without military importance; and this was especially the case in the days of Samson. The word rendered adder is more exactly the arrow-snake, which lies in wait in the "path," a narrow track, and springs upon its prey as it passes. A horse bitten in this way would rear and throw its rider, who would then be in the power of his assailant.

Verses 16-18. - Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. With a play upon his name, the firstborn son of Rachel's handmaid, Bilhah, is described as one who should occupy an important place and exercise highly beneficial functions in the future commonwealth, enjoying independence and self-government as one of the tribes of Israel (Herder, and others), and performing the office of an administrator among the People not of his own tribe merely, but also of all Israel, a prediction pointing perhaps to the transient supremacy enjoyed by Dan over the other tribes in the days of Samson (Onkelos, et alii). 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. The שְׁפִיפון, from the Syriac שֶׁפַפ, to glide (Gesenins), from שׁוּפ, to sting (Kalisch), שָׁפַפ, to bite (Furst), was the horned serpent, cerastes, of the color of sand, and marked with white and black spots, which was exceedingly dangerous to passers-by, its bite being poisonous and fatal. The allusion has been almost unanimously explained as pointing to Samson (Judges 16:28), but the tribe in general appears not to have been entirely destitute of the treacherous and formidable characteristics here depicted (Judges 18:27). "It is certainly observable that the first introduction of idolatry in Israel is ascribed to the tribe of Dan (Judges 18.), and that in the numbering of the tribes in Revelation 7. the name of Dan is omitted. From these or other causes many of the Fathers (Irenaeus, Ambrose, Augustine, Theodoret) were led to believe that Antichrist should spring from the tribe of Dan" ('Speaker's Commentary'). I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. To discover in this beautiful and tender ejaculation of the dying patriarch an apprehensive sigh lest his strength should be exhausted before his benediction was completed (Tuch), or a prayer that God might speedily effect his painless dissolution (Hengstenberg), or a device for dividing his benedictions, and separating the group of Judah from that of Joseph (Lange), is surely to fail in seizing its hidden spirit. It is doubtful if even the usual interpretation, that Jacob here expresses his hope and expectation that God would help and succor his descendants (Calvin, Rosenmüller, Keil, Kalisch, Murphy, and others), exhausts its rich significance. That, speaking in their name, he does anticipate the deliverance of Jehovah" In thy help do I hope, O Jehovah! - is apparent; but nothing surely can be more natural than to suppose that the dying patriarch, at the moment when he was formally transmitting to his children the theocratic blessing, had his thoughts lifted up towards that great salvation, of which all these material and temporal benedictions pronounced upon his sons were but the shadows and the types, and of which perhaps he had been incidentally reminded by the mention of the biting serpent, to which he had just likened Dan ('Speaker's Commentary'). It is noticeable that this is the first occurrence of the term salvation (יְשׁוּעָח, from the root יָשַׁע, unused in Kal, to be roomy or spacious, hence in the Hiphil to set free or deliver).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Dan
דָּ֖ן (dān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1835: Dan -- 'judge', a son of Jacob, also a place in Northern Israel

shall provide justice
יָדִ֣ין (yā·ḏîn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1777: A straight course, sail direct

for his people
עַמּ֑וֹ (‘am·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

as one
כְּאַחַ֖ד (kə·’a·ḥaḏ)
Preposition-k | Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 259: United, one, first

of the tribes
שִׁבְטֵ֥י (šiḇ·ṭê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

of Israel.
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


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