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. See also: Numbers 24:14 Jeremiah 23:20 Daniel 10:14 Deuteronomy 4:30 Deuteronomy 31:12
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. See also: Psalms 34:11 Proverbs 1:8-9 Proverbs 4:1-4 Proverbs 5:1 Proverbs 6:20
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: See also: Deuteronomy 21:17 Psalms 78:51 Psalms 105:36 Genesis 29:32 Genesis 48:18
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. See also: Genesis 35:22 1 Chronicles 5:1 Deuteronomy 27:20 Deuteronomy 33:6 1 Corinthians 5:1
5 ¶ Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. See also: Genesis 34:25-31 Genesis 29:33-34 Genesis 46:10-11 Proverbs 18:9
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. See also: Genesis 34:30 Psalms 26:9 Psalms 16:9 Psalms 26:4-5 Psalms 57:8
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. See also: Joshua 19:1-9 1 Chronicles 4:24-31 1 Chronicles 6:65 Joshua 21:1-45 2 Samuel 13:15
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. See also: Genesis 27:29 Hebrews 7:14 1 Chronicles 5:2 Genesis 29:35 Deuteronomy 33:7
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? See also: Numbers 24:9 Numbers 23:24 Revelation 5:5 Micah 5:8 Hosea 5:14
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. See also: Numbers 24:17 Luke 1:32-33 Psalms 60:7 Isaiah 9:6 Jeremiah 23:5-6
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: See also: Isaiah 63:1-3 Joel 3:18 Revelation 7:14 1 Kings 4:20 1 Kings 4:25
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. See also: Proverbs 23:29
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. See also: Deuteronomy 33:18-19 Genesis 30:20 Joshua 19:10-16
14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: See also: Genesis 30:18 1 Chronicles 12:32 Deuteronomy 33:18 Joshua 19:17-23 Judges 5:15-16
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. See also: Joshua 14:15 Judges 3:11 2 Samuel 7:1 Psalms 81:6 Ezekiel 29:18
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. See also: Genesis 30:6 Deuteronomy 33:22 Numbers 10:25 Judges 13:2 Judges 13:24-25
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. See also: 1 Chronicles 12:35 Judges 18:22-31 Judges 14:1-15 Judges 16:22-30
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. See also: Psalms 119:166 Psalms 119:174 Isaiah 25:9 Micah 7:7 Psalms 130:5
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. See also: Genesis 30:11 Deuteronomy 33:20-21 1 Chronicles 5:11-22 1 Chronicles 3:18-22 1 Chronicles 5:26
20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. See also: Deuteronomy 33:24-25 Genesis 30:13 Genesis 46:17 Joshua 19:24-31
21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. See also: Deuteronomy 33:23 Genesis 30:8 Genesis 46:24 Joshua 19:32-39 Judges 4:6
22 ¶ Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: See also: Genesis 41:52 Psalms 1:1-3 Psalms 128:3 Genesis 30:22-24 Genesis 46:27
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: See also: Genesis 37:24 Genesis 37:28 Psalms 64:3 Psalms 118:13 Genesis 37:4
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:) See also: Psalms 132:2 Psalms 132:5 Isaiah 28:16 Job 29:20 Psalms 18:30
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: See also: Genesis 28:13 Genesis 35:11 Philippians 4:19 Deuteronomy 8:17 Genesis 27:28
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. See also: Deuteronomy 33:15-16 Habakkuk 3:6 Genesis 27:27-29 Genesis 27:39-40 Genesis 28:3-4
27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. See also: Genesis 35:18 Genesis 46:21 Judges 20:21 Judges 20:25 Ezekiel 22:27
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. See also: Revelation 7:4 Genesis 35:22 Numbers 23:24 1 Kings 18:31 Esther 8:7
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, See also: Genesis 47:30 Genesis 50:13 Genesis 15:15 Genesis 25:8-17 Genesis 35:29
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. See also: Genesis 23:8-9 Genesis 23:16-18 Genesis 23:20
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. See also: Genesis 25:9 Genesis 35:29 Genesis 23:3 Genesis 23:16-20 Genesis 47:30
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. See also: Genesis 23:17-20
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. See also: Genesis 49:29 Genesis 25:8 Genesis 35:29 Genesis 15:5 Genesis 25:17