Genesis 49

1Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.Cross-references: Num 24:14 · Deut 4:30 · Deut 31:12 · Deut 31:28 · Deut 33:1 · Ps 25:14 · +21 more

2Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.Cross-references: Ps 34:11 · Prov 1:8 · Prov 4:1 · Prov 5:1 · Prov 6:20 · Prov 7:1 · +4 more

3“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.Cross-references: Gen 29:32 · Gen 46:8 · Gen 48:18 · Num 1:20 · Num 26:5 · Deut 21:17 · +5 more

4Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.Cross-references: Gen 35:22 · Gen 46:8 · Num 32:1 · Deut 5:21 · Deut 27:20 · Deut 33:6 · +5 more

5“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.Cross-references: Gen 29:33 · Gen 34:25 · Gen 46:10 · Prov 18:9

6My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.Cross-references: Gen 34:25 · Gen 34:30 · Deut 27:24 · Judg 5:21 · Ps 1:1 · Ps 5:10 · +20 more

7Cursed 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.Cross-references: Josh 19:1 · Josh 21:1 · 2Sam 13:15 · 2Sam 13:22 · 1Chr 4:24 · 1Chr 4:39 · +3 more

8“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.Cross-references: Gen 27:29 · Gen 29:35 · Gen 37:7 · Gen 42:6 · Gen 44:18 · Gen 46:12 · +29 more

9Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?Cross-references: Num 23:24 · Num 24:9 · Ezek 19:5 · Hos 5:4 · Hos 5:14 · Mic 5:8 · +2 more

10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him.Cross-references: Num 21:18 · Num 24:17 · Deut 28:57 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 60:7 · Ps 72:8 · +41 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

11Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.Cross-references: 1Ki 4:20 · 1Ki 4:25 · 2Ki 18:32 · Isa 63:1 · Joel 3:18 · Mic 4:4 · +2 more

12His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.Cross-references: Prov 23:29

13“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.Cross-references: Gen 30:20 · Deut 33:18 · Josh 19:10

14“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.Cross-references: Gen 30:18 · Deut 33:18 · Josh 19:17 · Judg 5:15 · Judg 10:1 · 1Chr 12:32

15He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.Cross-references: Josh 14:15 · Judg 3:11 · 2Sam 7:1 · Ps 81:6 · Ezek 29:18 · Matt 23:4

16“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 30:6 · Num 10:25 · Deut 33:22 · Judg 13:2 · Judg 13:24 · Judg 15:20 · +2 more

17Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.Cross-references: Judg 14:1 · Judg 16:22 · Judg 18:22 · 1Chr 12:35

18I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 14:7 · Ps 25:5 · Ps 40:1 · Ps 62:1 · Ps 62:5 · Ps 85:7 · +22 more

19“A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.Cross-references: Gen 30:11 · Gen 46:16 · Num 32:1 · Deut 33:20 · Josh 13:8 · Judg 10:1 · +3 more

20“Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.Cross-references: Gen 30:13 · Gen 46:17 · Deut 33:24 · Josh 19:24

21“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.Cross-references: Gen 30:8 · Gen 46:24 · Deut 33:23 · Josh 19:32 · Judg 4:6 · Judg 4:10 · +3 more

22“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.Cross-references: Gen 30:22 · Gen 41:52 · Gen 46:27 · Gen 48:1 · Gen 48:5 · Gen 48:16 · +9 more

23The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:Cross-references: Gen 37:4 · Gen 37:18 · Gen 37:24 · Gen 37:28 · Gen 39:7 · Gen 42:21 · +4 more

24But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),Cross-references: Gen 35:10 · Gen 45:5 · Gen 45:7 · Gen 45:11 · Gen 47:12 · Gen 50:21 · +37 more

25even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Gen 27:28 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 28:21 · Gen 35:3 · Gen 35:11 · +12 more

26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.Cross-references: Gen 27:27 · Gen 27:39 · Gen 28:3 · Gen 37:28 · Num 6:2 · Deut 33:15 · +10 more

27“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”Cross-references: Gen 35:18 · Gen 46:21 · Num 23:24 · Deut 33:12 · Judg 3:15 · Judg 20:21 · +15 more

28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.Cross-references: Gen 35:22 · Ex 28:21 · Num 23:24 · 1Ki 18:31 · Esth 8:7 · Esth 8:9 · +7 more

29He instructed 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,Cross-references: Gen 15:15 · Gen 25:8 · Gen 35:29 · Gen 47:30 · Gen 50:13 · 2Sam 19:37 · +2 more

30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.Cross-references: Gen 23:8 · Gen 23:16 · Gen 23:20

31There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:Cross-references: Gen 23:3 · Gen 23:16 · Gen 25:9 · Gen 35:29 · Gen 47:30 · Gen 50:13 · +1 more

32the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”Cross-references: Gen 23:17

33When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.Cross-references: Gen 15:5 · Gen 25:8 · Gen 25:17 · Gen 35:29 · Gen 49:1 · Gen 49:24 · +12 more