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- Then Jacob called for his sons and said:
- "Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.
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- "Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
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- "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength,
- excelling in honor, excelling in power.
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- Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel,
- for you went up onto your father's bed, onto my couch and defiled it.
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- "Simeon and Levi are brothers-- their swords are weapons of violence.
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- Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly,
- for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.
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- Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel!
- I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.
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- "Judah, your brothers will praise you;
- your hand will be on the neck of your enemies;
- your father's sons will bow down to you.
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- You are a lion's cub, O Judah; you return from the prey, my son.
- Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness--who dares to rouse him?
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- The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
- until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.
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- He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch;
- he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
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- His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.
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- "Zebulun will live by the seashore and become a haven for ships;
- his border will extend toward Sidon.
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- "Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.
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- When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land,
- he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor.
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- "Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
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- Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path,
- that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
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- "I look for your deliverance, O LORD.
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- "Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack them at their heels.
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- "Asher's food will be rich; he will provide delicacies fit for a king.
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- "Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
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- "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring,
- whose branches climb over a wall.
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- With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility.
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- But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber,
- because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob,
- because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
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- because of your father's God, who helps you, because of the Almighty,
- who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above,
- blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breast and womb.
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- Your father's blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains,
- than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,
- on the brow of the prince among his brothers.
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- "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
- in the morning he devours the prey,
- in the evening he divides the plunder."
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- All these are the twelve tribes of Israel,
- and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them,
- giving each the blessing appropriate to him.
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- Then he gave them these instructions:
- "I am about to be gathered to my people.
- Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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- the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan,
- which Abraham bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.
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- There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried,
- there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah.
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- The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites."
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- When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons,
- he drew his feet up into the bed,
- breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
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