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Genesis 49

Genesis 49 gathers Jacob’s sons around him to hear what will befall them in the latter days. The chapter is not a series of equal personal blessings: Reuben loses preeminence, Simeon and Levi are judged for violence, Judah receives royal and lion imagery, Zebulun and Issachar receive territorial/service descriptions, Dan, Gad, Asher, and Naphtali receive shorter sayings, Joseph receives an extended blessing, and Benjamin is compared to a ravening wolf. Jacob then commands burial at Machpelah and dies.

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Genesis 49 gathers Jacob’s sons around him to hear what will befall them in the latter days. The chapter is not a series of equal personal blessings: Reuben loses preeminence, Simeon and Levi are judged for violence, Judah receives royal and lion imagery, Zebulun and Issachar receive territorial/service descriptions, Dan, Gad, Asher, and Naphtali receive shorter sayings, Joseph receives an extended blessing, and Benjamin is compared to a ravening wolf. Jacob then commands burial at Machpelah and dies.

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Verses 1–2Jacob gathers his sonsVerses 3–4ReubenVerses 5–7Simeon and LeviVerses 8–12JudahVerses 13–21Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, and NaphtaliVerses 22–26JosephVerses 27BenjaminVerses 28–33Jacob gives final instructions and dies
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1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves…2Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and…3Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning…4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest…5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in…6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto…7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their…8Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy…9Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son,…10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver…11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt…12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth…13Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and…14Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:15And he saw that rest was good, and the land…16Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes…17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder…18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.19Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome…20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he…21Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by…23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him,…24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of…25Even by the God of thy father, who shall help…26The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings…27Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he…28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this…29And he charged them, and said unto them, I am…30In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah,…31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they…32The purchase of the field and of the cave that…33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his…