1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou
4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou
5 Simeon and Levi
6 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.
7 Cursed
8 Judah, thou
9 Judah
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him
11 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:
12 His eyes
13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he
14 Issachar
15 And he saw that rest
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 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.
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher his bread
21 Naphtali
22 Joseph
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty
25 Even
26 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.
27 Benjamin shall ravin
28 All these
29 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
30 In the cave that
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that
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 unto his people.