GENESIS
Ge:49:2: Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
Ge:49:3: Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Ge:49:4: 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.
Ge:49:5: Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Ge:49:6: 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.
Ge:49:7: 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.
Ge:49:8: 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.
Ge:49:9: 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?
Ge:49:10: 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.
Ge:49:11: 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:
Ge:49:12: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Ge:49:13: 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.
Ge:49:14: Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
Ge:49:15: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Ge:49:16: Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Ge:49:17: 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.
Ge:49:18: I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Ge:49:19: Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Ge:49:20: Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Ge:49:21: Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Ge:49:22: Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Ge:49:23: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
