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Genesis - ch 49 v 1 - 20
- And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, and I will tell you what will befall you at the end of days.
- Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, And listen to Israel your father.
- Reuben, thou art my firstborn, My might, and the firstfruits of my vigour: Excellency of dignity, and excellency of strength.
- Impetuous as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my bed.
- Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
- My soul, come not into their council; Mine honour, be not united with their assembly; For in their anger they slew men, And in their wantonness houghed oxen.
- Cursed be their anger, for it was violent; And their rage, for it was cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.
- Judah -- as to thee, thy brethren will praise thee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's children will bow down to thee.
- Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a lioness: who will rouse him up?
- The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples.
- He bindeth his foal to the vine, And his ass's colt to the choice vine; He washeth his dress in wine, And his garment in the blood of grapes.
- The eyes are red with wine, And the teeth are white with milk.
- Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; Yea, he will be at the shore of the ships, And his side toucheth upon Sidon.
- Issachar is a bony ass, Crouching down between two hurdles.
- And he saw the rest that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And was a tributary servant.
- Dan will judge his people, As another of the tribes of Israel.
- Dan will be a serpent on the way, A horned snake on the path, Which biteth the horse's heels, So that the rider falleth backwards.
- I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
- Gad -- troops will rush upon him; But he will rush upon the heel.
- Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he will give royal dainties.
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