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49:1And Jacob called to his sons and said, Gather yourselves together that I may tell you what will happen to you in the last days.
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49:2Assemble yourselves, and listen, O sons of Jacob; / Yes, listen to Israel your father.
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49:3Reuben, you are my firstborn, / My might and the firstfruits of my vigor, / Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
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49:4Ebullient as water, you will not have the preeminence, / Because you went up to your father's bed; / Then you defiled it-he went up to my couch.
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49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers; / Weapons of violence are their swords.
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49:6Come not into their council, O my soul; / Be not united with their assembly, O my glory; / For in their anger they slew men, / And in their self-will they hamstrung oxen.
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49:7Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; / And their wrath, for it is cruel: / I will divide them in Jacob, / And scatter them in Israel.
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49:8Judah, your brothers will praise you; / Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; / Your father's sons will bow down before you.
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49:9Judah is a young lion; / From the prey, my son, you have gone up. / He couches, he stretches out like a lion, / And like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
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49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, / Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, / Until Shiloh comes, / And to Him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
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49:11Binding his foal to the vine, / And his donkey's colt to the choice vine, / He washes his garment in wine, / And his robe in the blood of grapes.
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49:12Dark are his eyes with wine, / And white are his teeth with milk.
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49:13Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the sea, / And he will be a shore for ships, / And his flank will be toward Sidon.
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49:14Issachar is a strong donkey, / Couching between the sheepfolds.
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49:15And he saw a resting place that was good / And the land that was pleasant, / And he bowed his shoulder to bear, / And became a task-worker to bring tribute.
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49:16Dan will judge his people, / As one of the tribes of Israel.
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49:17Dan will be a serpent in the way, / A viper on the path, / That bites the horse's heels, / So that his rider falls backward.
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49:18I have waited for Your salvation, O Jehovah.
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49:19Gad, raiders will raid him, / But he will raid at their heel.
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49:20Asher's food will be rich, / And he will yield royal dainties.
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49:21Naphtali is a hind let loose; / He gives beautiful words.
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49:22Joseph is a fruitful bough, / A fruitful bough by a fountain; / His branches run over the wall.
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49:23The archers bitterly attacked him, / And shot at him and harassed him;
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49:24But his bow remained firm, / And the arms of his hands were agile, / By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob- / From there is the Shepherd, the stone of Israel -
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49:25From the God of your father, who will help you, / And from the All-sufficient One, who will bless you / With blessings of heaven above, / Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, / Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
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49:26The blessings of your father surpass / The blessings of my ancestors / To the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. / They will be on the head of Joseph, / And on the crown of the head of the one who was separate from his / brothers.
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49:27Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, / In the morning devouring the prey / And in the evening dividing the spoil.
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49:28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he blessed them; he blessed them, each one according to his blessing.
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49:29And he charged them and said to them, I am being gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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49:30In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for the possession of a burial place -
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49:31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah -
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49:32The field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the children of Heth.
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49:33And when Jacob had finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed and expired, and he was gathered to his people.
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50:1Then Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
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50:2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
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50:3And forty days were spent for this, for this is the time to be spent for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
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50:4And when the days of weeping for him had passed, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,
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50:5My father made me swear, saying, Now I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.
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50:6And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.
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50:7And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
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50:8And all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.
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50:9And chariots also went up with him, as well as horsemen; and it was a very great company.
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50:10And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation; and he observed seven days of mourning for his father.
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50:11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
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50:12And thus his sons did to him as he commanded them;
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50:13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought with the field for a possession of a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
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50:14And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.
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50:15And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the evil which we did to him?
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50:16And they sent a message to Joseph, saying, Your father charged before he died, saying,
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50:17Thus shall you say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong. So now please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
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50:18And his brothers also went and fell down before him and said, We are here as your servants.
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50:19And Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
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50:20Even though you intended evil against me, God intended it for good, to do as it is this day, to preserve alive a numerous people.
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50:21Now therefore do not be afraid; I will sustain you and your little ones. And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
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50:22And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's household; and Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
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50:23And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children of Machir the son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph's knees.
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50:24And Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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50:25And Joseph made the children of Israel swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall bring my bones up from here.
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50:26And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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