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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Jacob called for his sons and said, "Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your father. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it--he got on my couch! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their knives! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father's sons will bow down before you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You are a lion's cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness--who will rouse him? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Binding his foal to the vine, and his colt to the choicest vine, he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12His eyes will be dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Zebulun will live by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15When he sees a good resting place, and the pleasant land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and become a slave laborer. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I wait for your deliverance, O LORD. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Gad will be raided by marauding bands, but he will attack them at their heels. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Asher's food will be rich, and he will provide delicacies to royalty. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Naphtali is a free running doe, he speaks delightful words. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful; because of the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning devouring the prey, and in the evening dividing the plunder." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Then he instructed them, "I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31There 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 in it were acquired from the sons of Heth." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people. |
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