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Genesis - ch 49 v 1 - 20
- And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.
- Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel your father:
- Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow: excelling in gifts, greater in command.
- Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not: because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.
- Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.
- Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: "be- cause in their fury they slew a man, and in their selfwill they undermined a wall.
- Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath because it was cruel: I Will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.
- Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hands shall be on the necks of thy enemies: the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.
- Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?
- The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.
- 11Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, 0 my son, to the vine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.
- His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
- Zabulon shall dwell on the sea shore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.
- Issachar shall be a strong ass lying down between the borders.
- He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.
- Dan shall judge his people like an- other tribe in Israel.
- Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels that his rider may fall backward.
- I will look for thy salvation, 0 Lord.
- Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.
- Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.
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