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Genesis - ch 49 v 21 - 32
- Nephtali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.
- Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold; the daughters run to and fro upon the wall.
- But they that held darts provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.
- His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.
- The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth be- neath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
- The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come; may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.
- Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.
- All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one, with their proper blessings.
- And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people : bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,
- Over against Mambre in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought to- gather with the field of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in.
- There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.
- And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people."
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