have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my
sword and with my bow.
Gen.49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which
shall befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken
unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength,
the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because
thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
5 Simeon and Levi are
brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto
their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill
they digged down a wall.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will
divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy
hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah is
a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as
an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal
unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes
in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13 Zebulun shall
dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
14
Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
15 And he saw that rest was good, and
the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
16 Dan
shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 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.
18 I have waited for thy salvation,
O LORD.
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher his bread
shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
22
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23 The archers
have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the
arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd,
the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall
bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts,
and of the womb:
26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of
the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he
shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and
this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he
blessed them.
29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury
me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 In the cave that is in the field
of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of
Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there
they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the
cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding
his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his
people.
Gen.50
1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded
his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And forty days
were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned
for him threescore and ten days.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto
the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of
Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me