These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 49
Tanakh 33 verses
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And called unto his sons, and said: ‘Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the end of days.
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Numbers 24:14 Jeremiah 23:20 Daniel 10:14 Deuteronomy 4:30 Isaiah 2:2 Revelation 4:1 1 Timothy 4:1 Daniel 10:1 Amos 3:7 Hebrews 10:24-25 Deuteronomy 31:12 Hebrews 1:2 2 Timothy 3:1 Deuteronomy 31:28-29 Deuteronomy 33:1-29 Isaiah 22:14 Acts 2:17 Psalm 25:14 Micah 4:1 Romans 1:17-18 Psalm 105:15 Daniel 2:47 Daniel 2:28-29 Isaiah 39:6 Luke 2:26 Isaiah 53:1 Hebrews 13:1 - 2 Assemble yourselves, and , ye sons of ; And hearken unto your father.
- 3 , thou art my first-born, My might, and the first-fruits of my strength; The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.
- 4 Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; Then defiledst thou it—he went up to my couch.
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and are brethren; Weapons of violence their kinship.
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Let my not come into their council; Unto their let my not be not united; For in their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they houghed oxen.
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Psalm 26:9 Genesis 34:30 Psalm 57:8 Psalm 16:9 Psalm 64:2 Proverbs 1:15-16 Proverbs 12:5 Jeremiah 4:19 Psalm 42:11 Proverbs 1:11 Luke 12:19 2 Corinthians 6:14 Deuteronomy 27:24 Psalm 30:12 Psalm 42:5 Jeremiah 15:17 Psalm 139:19 Psalm 1:1 Psalm 5:10 Psalm 26:4-5 Genesis 34:25-26 Judges 5:21 Psalm 103:1 Psalm 28:3 Psalm 94:20-21 Psalm 43:5 - 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, And their wrath, for it was cruel; I will divide them in , And scatter them in
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, thee shall thy brethren ; Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father’s sons shall bow down before thee.
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1 Chronicles 5:2 Genesis 27:29 Hebrews 7:14 Deuteronomy 33:7 Genesis 29:35 Genesis 37:7-10 Genesis 46:12 Judges 1:1-2 2 Samuel 22:41 2 Samuel 24:9 Genesis 44:18-34 Numbers 10:14 2 Samuel 5:3 2 Chronicles 17:14-16 2 Chronicles 17:2 Numbers 1:27 2 Chronicles 14:8 Psalm 18:40-43 Revelation 11:15 Joshua 10:24 Genesis 42:6 Philippians 2:10-11 Psalm 76:1 Ezekiel 21:29 Numbers 26:22 2 Chronicles 15:9 1 Kings 4:1-34 2 Chronicles 30:11 Revelation 5:5 Psalm 78:68-71 2 Chronicles 11:12-17 Hebrews 10:13 Isaiah 9:7 Judges 20:18 1 Chronicles 12:1-40 -
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is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
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The sceptre shall not depart from , Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, As long as men come to ; And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.
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Psalm 60:7 Numbers 24:17 Luke 1:32-33 Isaiah 42:1 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Isaiah 42:3-4 Daniel 9:25 Zechariah 10:11 Isaiah 33:22 Isaiah 9:6 Ezekiel 21:27 Matthew 1:21 Psalm 108:8 Matthew 17:5 Isaiah 49:6-7 Psalm 72:8-11 Isaiah 11:12-13 Isaiah 62:11 Deuteronomy 28:57 Isaiah 11:10 Hebrews 7:14 Isaiah 55:4-5 Luke 2:30-32 Psalm 2:6-9 Ezekiel 19:11 Isaiah 60:3-5 Matthew 21:9 Revelation 11:15 Haggai 2:7 Jeremiah 30:21 Numbers 21:18 Zechariah 8:20-23 John 19:12 Isaiah 60:1 Matthew 25:32 Zechariah 2:11 2 Corinthians 5:10 John 9:7 Isaiah 2:2 Isaiah 11:1-5 Romans 15:12 Ezekiel 19:14 John 18:31 John 12:32 Hosea 11:12 John 19:15 Isaiah 49:22-23 -
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Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; He washeth his garments in wine, And his vesture in the of grapes;
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- 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.
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shall dwell at the shore of the sea, And he shall be a shore for ships, And his flank shall be upon Zidon.
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is a large-boned ass, Couching down between the sheep-folds.
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For he saw a resting-place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a under task-work
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shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of .
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shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snake in the path, That biteth the horse’s heels, So that his rider falleth backward.
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I wait for Thy , O .
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Psalm 119:174 Psalm 119:166 Isaiah 25:9 Micah 7:7 Luke 2:25 Psalm 40:1 Luke 2:30 Isaiah 36:8 Luke 1:30 Romans 8:25 Lamentations 3:25 1 Thessalonians 1:10 Romans 8:19 Luke 23:51 Isaiah 30:18 Isaiah 8:17 Psalm 14:7 Psalm 123:2 Psalm 119:41 Isaiah 33:2 Matthew 1:21 Psalm 85:7 Psalm 62:5 Galatians 5:5 Psalm 62:1 Psalm 25:5-6 Psalm 130:5 Mark 15:43 - 19 , a troop shall troop upon him; But he shall troop upon their heel.
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As for , his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties.
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- 21 is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words.
- 22 is a fruitful vine, A fruitful vine by a fountain; Its branches run over the wall.
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The archers have dealt bitterly with him, And shot at him, and hated him;
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But his bow abode firm, And the arms of his hands were made supple, By the hands of the Mighty One of , From thence, from the Shepherd, the Stone of ,
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Isaiah 28:16 Psalm 132:2 Psalm 132:5 Psalm 18:30 Job 29:20 Psalm 80:1 Psalm 118:22 Ephesians 2:20 Isaiah 1:24 Deuteronomy 32:4 Isaiah 29:24 Psalm 28:8 Isaiah 41:10 Genesis 47:12 Numbers 27:16-18 Mark 12:10 Luke 20:17 Psalm 23:1 Genesis 45:11 Isaiah 60:16 Matthew 21:42 Psalm 37:14-15 Colossians 1:11 Genesis 45:7 Acts 4:11 Romans 14:4 Joshua 24:1-33 1 Peter 2:4-8 Joshua 1:1-9 Zechariah 3:9 Zechariah 10:12 Psalm 18:32-35 Psalm 44:7 Psalm 18:1 Genesis 35:10-11 Psalm 89:1 Deuteronomy 34:9 2 Timothy 4:17 Nehemiah 6:9 Psalm 27:14 Genesis 50:21 Genesis 45:5 Exodus 3:6 - 25 Even by the of thy father, who shall help thee, And by the Almighty, who shall thee, With blessings of above, Blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
- 26 The blessings of thy father Are mighty beyond the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the hills; They shall be on the head of , And on the of the head of the prince among his brethren.
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is a wolf that raveneth; In the morning he devoureth the prey, And at even he divideth the spoil.’
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- 28 All these are the twelve tribes of , and this is it that their father spoke unto them and blessed them; every one according to his he blessed them.
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And be 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 , which bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place.
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There they buried and his wife; there they buried and his wife; and there I buried .
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The field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.’
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- 33 And when made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.