49Genesis 49

CHAP. XLIX. / 1 Iacob calleth his sonnes to blesse them. 3 Their blessing in particular. 29 He chargeth them about his buriall. 33 He dieth.

1And Iacob called vnto his sonnes, and said, Gather your selues together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last dayes.Select Genesis 49:1

2Gather your selues together, and heare ye sonnes of Iacob, and hearken vnto Israel your father.Select Genesis 49:2

3Reuben, thou art my first borne, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellencie of dignitie, and the excellencie of power:Select Genesis 49:3

4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excell, because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bed: then defiledst thou it. He went vp to my couche.Select Genesis 49:4

5Simeon and Leui are brethren, instruments of crueltie are in their habitations.Select Genesis 49:5

6O my soule, come not thou into their secret: vnto their assembly mine honour be not thou vnited: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfe will they digged downe a wall.Select Genesis 49:6

7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruell: I will diuide them in Iacob, and scatter them in Israel.Select Genesis 49:7

8Iudah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the necke of thine enemies, thy fathers children shall bow downe before thee:Select Genesis 49:8

9Iudah is a Lyons whelpe: from the pray my sonne thou art gone vp: he stouped downe, hee couched as a Lyon, and as an old Lyon: who shall rouse him vp?Select Genesis 49:9

10The scepter shall not depart from Iudah, nor a Law-giuer from betweene his feete, vntill Shiloh come: and vnto him shall the gathering of the people be:Select Genesis 49:10

11Binding his foale vnto the vine, and his asses colt vnto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.Select Genesis 49:11

12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milke.Select Genesis 49:12

13Zebulun shall dwell at the hauen of the sea, and hee shall be for an Hauen of ships: and his border shall be vnto Zidon.Select Genesis 49:13

14Issachar is a strong asse, couching downe betweene two burdens.Select Genesis 49:14

15And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant: and bowed his shoulder to beare, and became a seruant vnto tribute.Select Genesis 49:15

16Dan shall iudge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.Select Genesis 49:16

17Dan shalbe a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heeles, so that his rider shall fall backward.Select Genesis 49:17

18I haue waited for thy saluation, O LORD.Select Genesis 49:18

19Gad, a troupe shall ouercome him: but he shall ouercome at the last.Select Genesis 49:19

20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yeeld royall dainties.Select Genesis 49:20

21Naphtali is a hinde let loose: He giueth goodly words.Select Genesis 49:21

22Ioseph is a fruitfull bough, euen a fruitfull bough by a well, whose branches runne ouer the wall.Select Genesis 49:22

23The archers haue sorely grieued him, and shot at him, and hated him.Select Genesis 49:23

24But his bow abode in strength, and the armes of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the mighty God of Iacob: from thence is the Sheapheard, the stone of Israel,Select Genesis 49:24

25Euen by the God of thy father who shall helpe thee, and by the Almightie, who shall blesse thee with blessings of heauen aboue, blessings of the deepe that lyeth vnder, blessings of the breasts and of the wombe.Select Genesis 49:25

26The blessings of thy father haue preuailed aboue the blessings of my progenitors: vnto the vtmost bound of the euerlasting hils, they shall bee on the head of Ioseph, and on the crowne of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.Select Genesis 49:26

27Beniamin shall rauine as a wolfe: In the morning hee shall deuoure the pray, and at night he shall diuide the spoile.Select Genesis 49:27

28All these are the twelue tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spake vnto them, and blessed them: euery one according to his blessing he blessed them.Select Genesis 49:28

29And hee charged them and said vnto them, I am to bee gathered vnto my people: burie me with my fathers, in the caue that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,Select Genesis 49:29

30In the caue that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying place.Select Genesis 49:30

31(There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.)Select Genesis 49:31

32The purchase of the field and of the caue that is therein, was from the children of Heth.Select Genesis 49:32

33And when Iacob had made an end of commanding his sonnes, he gathered vp his feete into the bed, and yeelded vp the ghost, and was gathered vnto his people.Select Genesis 49:33