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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After this, Jacob called his sons together and told them, "Assemble yourselves around me so I can tell you all what is going to happen to you in the last days. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Gather together and listen, you children of Jacob. Listen to your father Israel." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Reuben, you're my firstborn, my strength, and the first fruit of my vitality. You excel in rank and excel in power. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But you're as undisciplined as a roaring river, so eventually you won't succeed, because you got in your father's bed, defiled it, and then approached my couch." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are violent weapons. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I'll never join their council; I'll never enter their assembly. In their anger they committed murder and lamed cattle just for fun. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Their anger is cursed, because it is so fierce, as is their vehemence, because it is so cruel. I will separate them throughout Jacob's territory and disperse them throughout Israel." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Your brothers will praise you, Judah. Your hand will be at the throat of your enemies, and your father's children will bow down to you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Judah is a lion cub. My son, you have gone up from the prey. Crouching like a lion, he lies down, Like a lioness, who would dare rouse him? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The scepter will never depart from Judah, nor a ruler's staff from between his feet, until the One comes, who owns them both, and to him will belong the allegiance of nations. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Binding his donkey to the vine and his mare's foal to its thick tendrils, he will wash his garments in wine and his robe in the juice of grapes. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12His eyes are darker than wine and his teeth whiter than milk." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Zebulun will settle down near the sea shore and become a safe haven for shipping, bordering Sidon." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Issachar is a strong donkey, resting between sheepfolds. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He observed that his resting place was excellent, and that the land was pleasant; he bent down, picked up his burdens, and became a slave at forced labor." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Dan will judge his people as one of Israel's tribes. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Dan will be a snake on the path, a viper on the road that snaps at the heels of horses, causing their riders to fall off. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"LORD, I'm waiting for your salvation." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Bandits will raid Gad, but Gad will raid them back." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Asher's food will be delicious; he will be a provider of delicacies fit for royalty." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Naphtali is a free running deer who produces eloquent literature." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Joseph is descended from a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine planted near springs of water. His branches climb over walls. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Even though enemies attacked him, shooting at him and pursuing him viciously, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24nevertheless his bow remained steady and his arms kept in shape by the strength of Jacob's Mighty One, in the name of the Shepherd, Israel's Rock, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25by your father's God who helps you, by the Almighty who will keep on blessing you with blessings from heaven above, with blessings from the deepest ocean, with blessing from the breasts and the womb. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Your father's blessings will prove to be stronger than blessings from the eternal mountains or bounties from the everlasting hills. May they come to rest on Joseph's head, May they be set upon the brow of the one who was separated from his own brothers." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"Benjamin is vicious like a wolf; what he kills in the morning he devours in the evening." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28That's how Israel blessed these twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father told them when he pronounced his blessing for them, blessing each one with a blessing suitable for them. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: "I'm about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30It's the cave in the field near Mamre at Machpelah in the land of Canaan that Abraham bought to serve as a cemetery. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31It's where Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, where Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and where I buried Leah. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Both the field and the cave that's in it were purchased from the Hittites." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33After concluding this set of instructions to his sons, Jacob tucked his feet up into bed, quit breathing, and was gathered to his ancestors. |
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