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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.