1 And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. Compare verse3 commentaries
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and listen to Israel your father. Compare verse1 commentary
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Compare verse4 commentaries
4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch. Compare verse5 commentaries
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. Compare verse6 commentaries
6 O my soul, come not you into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they dig down a wall. Compare verse6 commentaries
7 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. Compare verse6 commentaries
8 Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you. Compare verse6 commentaries
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? Compare verse9 commentaries
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be. Compare verse3 commentaries
11 Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: Compare verse12 commentaries
15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute. Compare verse2 commentaries
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. Compare verse4 commentaries
24 But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Compare verse1 commentary
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: Compare verse4 commentaries
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to 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 brothers. Compare verse3 commentaries
27 Benjamin shall shred as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. Compare verse5 commentaries
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. Compare verse
29 And he charged them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, Compare verse
30 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 burial plot. Compare verse
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. Compare verse
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. Compare verse
33 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 to his people. Compare verse