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1. And Jacob called his sons and said, Gather yourselves and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.
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1. And Jacob H3290 called H7121 unto H413 his sons H1121 , and said H559 , Gather yourselves together H622 , that I may tell H5046 you that H853 which H834 shall befall H7122 you in the last H319 days H3117 .
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2. Gather yourselves and hear, sons of Jacob; yea, listen to your father Israel:
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2. Gather yourselves together H6908 , and hear H8085 , ye sons H1121 of Jacob H3290 ; and hearken H8085 unto H413 Israel H3478 your father H1 .
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3. Reuben, you are my first-born, my strength and the firstfruit of my power; excellence of dignity and excellence of might.
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3. Reuben H7205 , thou H859 art my firstborn H1060 , my might H3581 , and the beginning H7225 of my strength H202 , the excellency H3499 of dignity H7613 , and the excellency H3499 of power H5794 :
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4. Like boiling water you shall not excel, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.
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4. Unstable H6349 as water H4325 , thou shalt not H408 excel H3498 ; because H3588 thou wentest up H5927 to thy father H1 's bed H4904 ; then H227 defiledst H2490 thou it : he went up H5927 to my couch H3326 .
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5. Simeon and Levi, brothers; their weapons are instruments of violence.
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5. Simeon H8095 and Levi H3878 are brethren H251 ; instruments H3627 of cruelty H2555 are in their habitations H4380 .
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6. Let not my soul come into their counsel; let not my spirit be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed a man; and in selfwill they hamstrung a bull.
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6. O my soul H5315 , come H935 not H408 thou into their secret H5475 ; unto their assembly H6951 , mine honor H3519 , be not H408 thou united H3161 : for H3588 in their anger H639 they slew H2026 a man H376 , and in their self H7522 -will they digged down H6131 a wall H7791 .
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7. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.
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7. Cursed H779 be their anger H639 , for H3588 it was fierce H5794 ; and their wrath H5678 , for H3588 it was cruel H7185 : I will divide H2505 them in Jacob H3290 , and scatter H6327 them in Israel H3478 .
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8. Judah, may your brothers praise you, your hand be on the neck of your enemies. May the sons of your father bow themselves to you.
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8. Judah H3063 , thou H859 art he whom thy brethren H251 shall praise H3034 : thy hand H3027 shall be in the neck H6203 of thine enemies H341 ; thy father H1 's children H1121 shall bow down H7812 before thee.
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9. Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have risen up from the prey; he stoops, he crouches like a lion; and like a lioness, who can rouse him?
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9. Judah H3063 is a lion H738 's whelp H1482 : from the prey H4480 H2964 , my son H1121 , thou art gone up H5927 : he stooped down H3766 , he couched H7257 as a lion H738 , and as an old lion H3833 ; who H4310 shall rouse him up H6965 ?
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10. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawmaker from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and the obedience of the peoples to him.
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10. The scepter H7626 shall not H3808 depart H5493 from Judah H4480 H3063 , nor a lawgiver H2710 from between H4480 H996 his feet H7272 , until H5704 H3588 Shiloh H7886 come H935 ; and unto him shall the gathering H3349 of the people H5971 be .
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11. Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in wine, and his covering in the blood of grapes.
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11. Binding H631 his foal H5895 unto the vine H1612 , and his ass H860 's colt H1121 unto the choice vine H8321 ; he washed H3526 his garments H3830 in wine H3196 , and his clothes H5497 in the blood H1818 of grapes H6025 :
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12. His eyes shall be dark from wine and his teeth white from milk.
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12. His eyes H5869 shall be red H2447 with wine H4480 H3196 , and his teeth H8127 white H3836 with milk H4480 H2461 .
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13. Zebulun shall live at the seashore, and he shall be a haven of ships, even his border beside Sidon.
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13. Zebulun H2074 shall dwell H7931 at the haven H2348 of the sea H3220 ; and he H1931 shall be for a haven H2348 of ships H591 ; and his border H3411 shall be unto H5921 Zidon H6721 .
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14. Issachar is a strong ass, crouching between the sheepfolds.
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14. Issachar H3485 is a strong H1634 ass H2543 couching down H7257 between H996 two burdens H4942 :
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15. And he saw a resting place that it was good, and that the land was pleasant. And he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tribute slave.
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15. And he saw H7200 that H3588 rest H4496 was good H2896 , and the land H776 that H3588 it was pleasant H5276 ; and bowed H5186 his shoulder H7926 to bear H5445 , and became H1961 a servant H5647 unto tribute H4522 .
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16. Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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16. Dan H1835 shall judge H1777 his people H5971 , as one H259 of the tribes H7626 of Israel H3478 .
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17. Let Dan be a serpent on the way, a horned snake on the path that bites the horses' heels, and its rider falls backward.
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17. Dan H1835 shall be H1961 a serpent H5175 by H5921 the way H1870 , an adder H8207 in H5921 the path H734 , that biteth H5391 the horse H5483 heels H6119 , so that his rider H7392 shall fall H5307 backward H268 .
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18. I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah.
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18. I have waited H6960 for thy salvation H3444 , O LORD H3068 .
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19. Gad, a raiding band shall attack him, and he shall attack their heel.
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19. Gad H1410 , a troop H1416 shall overcome H1464 him : but he H1931 shall overcome H1464 at the last H6119 .
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20. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall give a king's delicacies.
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20. Out of Asher H4480 H836 his bread H3899 shall be fat H8082 , and he H1931 shall yield H5414 royal H4428 dainties H4574 .
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21. Naphtali is a deer let loose giving one beautiful sayings.
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21. Naphtali H5321 is a hind H355 let loose H7971 : he giveth H5414 goodly H8233 words H561 .
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22. Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a spring; his branches run over a wall.
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22. Joseph H3130 is a fruitful H6509 bough H1121 , even a fruitful H6509 bough H1121 by H5921 a well H5869 ; whose branches H1323 run H6805 over H5921 the wall H7791 :
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23. And the masters of arrows harass him, and shoot, and an archer lurks for him.
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23. The archers H1167 H2671 have sorely grieved H4843 him , and shot H7232 at him , and hated H7852 him:
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24. His bow abides in strength, and the hands of his arms are made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.
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24. But his bow H7198 abode H3427 in strength H386 , and the arms H2220 of his hands H3027 were made strong H6339 by the hands H4480 H3027 of the mighty H46 God of Jacob H3290 ; (from thence H4480 H8033 is the shepherd H7462 , the stone H68 of Israel H3478 :)
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25. From the God of your father, may He help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven from above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and womb.
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25. Even by the God H4480 H410 of thy father H1 , who shall help H5826 thee ; and by the Almighty H7706 , who shall bless H1288 thee with blessings H1293 of heaven H8064 above H4480 H5920 , blessings H1293 of the deep H8415 that lieth H7257 under H8478 , blessings H1293 of the breasts H7699 , and of the womb H7356 :
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26. The blessings of your father are above the blessings of my offspring, to the limit of everlasting hills; may they be for the head of Joseph and for the crown of the leader of his brothers.
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26. The blessings H1293 of thy father H1 have prevailed H1396 above H5921 the blessings H1293 of my progenitors H2029 unto H5704 the utmost bound H8379 of the everlasting H5769 hills H1389 : they shall be H1961 on the head H7218 of Joseph H3130 , and on the crown of the head H6936 of him that was separate from H5139 his brethren H251 .
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27. Benjamin is a wolf that tears. In the morning he devours the prey, and at evening he divides the spoil.
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27. Benjamin H1144 shall ravin H2963 as a wolf H2061 : in the morning H1242 he shall devour H398 the prey H5706 , and at night H6153 he shall divide H2505 the spoil H7998 .
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28. All these were the tribes of Israel, two and ten. And this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, each one with what was according to his blessing, he blessed them.
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28. All H3605 these H428 are the twelve H8147 H6240 tribes H7626 of Israel H3478 : and this H2063 is it that H834 their father H1 spoke H1696 unto them , and blessed H1288 them ; every one H376 H834 according to his blessing H1293 he blessed H1288 them.
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29. And he commanded them, and said to them, I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me beside my fathers, at the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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29. And he charged H6680 them , and said H559 unto H413 them, I H589 am to be gathered H622 unto H413 my people H5971 : bury H6912 me with H413 my fathers H1 in H413 the cave H4631 that H834 is in the field H7704 of Ephron H6085 the Hittite H2850 ,
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30. in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.
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30. In the cave H4631 that H834 is in the field H7704 of Machpelah H4375 , which H834 is before H5921 H6440 Mamre H4471 , in the land H776 of Canaan H3667 , which H834 Abraham H85 bought H7069 with H854 the field H7704 of H4480 H854 Ephron H6085 the Hittite H2850 for a possession H272 of a burial place H6913 .
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31. They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and I buried Leah there;
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31. There H8033 they buried H6912 H853 Abraham H85 and Sarah H8283 his wife H802 ; there H8033 they buried H6912 H853 Isaac H3327 and Rebekah H7259 his wife H802 ; and there H8033 I buried H6912 H853 Leah H3812 .
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32. the purchase of the field and the cave in it, from the sons of Heth.
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32. The purchase H4735 of the field H7704 and of the cave H4631 that H834 is therein was from H4480 H854 the children H1121 of Heth H2845 .
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33. And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.
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33. And when Jacob H3290 had made an end H3615 of commanding H6680 H853 his sons H1121 , he gathered up H622 his feet H7272 into H413 the bed H4296 , and yielded up the ghost H1478 , and was gathered H622 unto H413 his people H5971 .
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