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| | |Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. | | |Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. |
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| | + | ==Chapter 49== |
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| | + | !Proposed Conservative Translation |
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| | + | |And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. |
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| | + | |Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. |
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| | + | |Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: |
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| | + | |Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. |
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| | + | |Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. |
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| | + | |O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. |
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| | + | |Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. |
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| | + | |Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. |
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| | + | |Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? |
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| | + | |The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. |
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| | + | |Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: |
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| | + | |His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. |
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| | + | |Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. |
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| | + | |Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: |
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| | + | |And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. |
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| | + | |Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. |
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| | + | |Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. |
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| | + | |I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. |
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| | + | |Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. |
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| | + | |Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. |
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| | + | |Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. |
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| | + | |Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: |
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| | + | |The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: |
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| | + | |But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) |
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| | + | |Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: |
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| | + | |The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. |
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| | + | |Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. |
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| | + | |All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. |
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| | + | |And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, |
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| | + | |In the cave 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 buryingplace. |
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| | + | |There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. |
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| | + | |The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. |
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| | + | |And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. |
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