Genesis 49:2

2 congregamini et audite filii Iacob audite Israhel patrem vestrum

Genesis 49:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 49:2

Gather yourselves together
This is repeated to hasten them, and to suggest that he had something of importance to make known unto them, which he chose to do, when they were together: and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father:
these words are used and doubled to excite their attention to what he was about to say, and which is urged from the near relation there was between them.

Genesis 49:2 In-Context

1 vocavit autem Iacob filios suos et ait eis congregamini ut adnuntiem quae ventura sunt vobis diebus novissimis

2 congregamini et audite filii Iacob audite Israhel patrem vestrum

3 Ruben primogenitus meus tu fortitudo mea et principium doloris mei prior in donis maior imperio

4 effusus es sicut aqua non crescas quia ascendisti cubile patris tui et maculasti stratum eius

5 Symeon et Levi fratres vasa iniquitatis bellantia