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.
Gather yourselves together,
and hear,
ye sons
of Jacob;
and hearken
unto Israel
your father.
Reuben,
thou art my firstborn,
my might,
and the beginning
of my strength,
the excellency
of dignity,
and the excellency
of power:
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.
burst out insolently
ἐξύβρισας
exybrisas
boil over
ἐκζέσῃς
ekzesēs
bed spread
στρωμνήν
strōmnēn
Simeon
and Levi
are brethren;
instruments
of cruelty
are in their habitations.
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.
alliance
συστάσει
systasei
emotions
ἥπατά
hēpata
hamstring
ἐνευροκόπησαν
eneurokopēsan
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.
wrath
μῆνις
mēnis
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.
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?
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.
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:
coil
ἕλικι
heliki
coat
περιβολὴν
peribolēn
His eyes
shall be red
with wine,
and his teeth
white
with milk.
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.
Issachar
is a strong
ass
couching down
between two burdens:
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.
Dan
shall judge
his people,
as one
of the tribes
of Israel.
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.
I have waited for
thy salvation,
O LORD.
Gad,
a troop
shall overcome
him: but he shall overcome
at the last.
Out of Asher
his bread
shall be fat,
and he shall yield
royal
dainties.
Naphtali
is a hind
let loose:
he giveth
goodly
words.
Joseph
is a fruitful
bough,
even a fruitful
bough
by a well;
whose branches
run
over the wall:
The archers
have sorely grieved him,
and shot
at him, and hated him:
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:
)
sinew
νεῦρα
neura
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:
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.
prevail over
ὑπερίσχυσεν
hyperischysen
stable
μονίμων
monimōn
heap
θινῶν
thinōn
ever-flowing
ἀενάων
aenaōn
top
κορυφῆς
koryphēs
Benjamin
shall ravin
as a wolf:
in the morning
he shall devour
the prey,
and at night
he shall divide
the spoil.
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.
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,
say
Ephrōn
Εφρων
ephrōn
Chettaios
Χετταίου
chettaiou
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.
Mambrē
Μαμβρη
mambrē
Ephrōn
Εφρων
ephrōn
Chettaios
Χετταίου
chettaiou
acquisition
κτήσει
ktēsei
There they buried
Abraham
and Sarah
his wife;
there they buried
Isaac
and Rebekah
his wife;
and there I buried
Leah.
The purchase
of the field
and of the cave
that is therein was from the children
of Heth.
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.
