| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, "Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob; And listen to Israel your father. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Reuben, you are my firstborn; My might and the beginning of my strength, Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Uncontrolled 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. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Simeon and Levi are brothers; Their swords are implements of violence. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Let my soul not enter into their council; Let not my glory be united with their assembly; Because in their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they lamed oxen. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel. I will disperse them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Judah, your brothers shall praise you; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's sons shall bow down to you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him up? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"He ties his foal to the vine, And his donkey's colt to the choice vine; He washes his garments in wine, And his robes in the blood of grapes. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"His eyes are dull from wine, And his teeth white from milk. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Zebulun will dwell at the seashore; And he shall be a haven for ships, And his flank shall be toward Sidon. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between the sheepfolds. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"When he saw that a resting place was good And that the land was pleasant, He bowed his shoulder to bear burdens, And became a slave at forced labor. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snake in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"For Your salvation I wait, O LORD. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"As for Gad, raiders shall raid him, But he will raid at their heels. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"As for Asher, his food shall be rich, And he will yield royal dainties. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Naphtali is a doe let loose, He gives beautiful words. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a spring; Its branches run over a wall. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"The archers bitterly attacked him, And shot at him and harassed him; |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But his bow remained firm, And his arms were agile, From the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel), |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25From the God of your father who helps you, And by the Almighty who blesses you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"The blessings of your father Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; May they be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he devours the prey, And in the evening he divides the spoil." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Then he charged them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah-- |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people. |
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