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Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, "Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.
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"Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob; And listen to Israel your father.
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"Reuben, you are my firstborn; My might and the beginning of my strength, Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
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"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.
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"Simeon and Levi are brothers; Their swords are implements of violence.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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?
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"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.
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"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.
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"His eyes are dull from wine, And his teeth white from milk.
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"Zebulun will dwell at the seashore *; And he shall be a haven for ships, And his flank shall be toward Sidon.
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"Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between the sheepfolds.
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"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.
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"Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.
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"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.
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"For Your salvation I wait, O LORD.
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"As for Gad, raiders shall raid him, But he will raid at their heels.
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"As for Asher, his food shall be rich, And he will yield royal dainties.
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"Naphtali is a doe let loose, He gives beautiful words.
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"Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a spring; Its branches run over a wall.
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"The archers * bitterly attacked him, And shot at him and harassed him;
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But 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 ),
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From 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.
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"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.
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"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he devours the prey, And in the evening he divides the spoil."
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All 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.
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Then 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,
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in 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.
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"There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah -
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the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth."
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When 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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