Genesis 49 (NET)

Genesis 49:1¹Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in future days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:2²“Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your father.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:3³Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:4⁴You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it—he got on my couch!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:5⁵Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their knives!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:6⁶O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:7⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:8⁸Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:9⁹You are a lion’s cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness—who will rouse him?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:10¹⁰The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:11¹¹Binding his foal to the vine, and his colt to the choicest vine, he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:12¹²His eyes will be red from wine, and his teeth white from milk.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:13¹³Zebulun will live by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:14¹⁴Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:15¹⁵When he sees a good resting place, and the pleasant land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and become a slave laborer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:16¹⁶Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:17¹⁷May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:18¹⁸I wait for your deliverance, O Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:19¹⁹Gad will be raided by marauding bands, but he will attack them at their heels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:20²⁰Asher’s food will be rich, and he will provide delicacies to royalty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:21²¹Naphtali is a free running doe, he speaks delightful words.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:22²²Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:23²³The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:24²⁴But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful; because of the hands of the Powerful One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:25²⁵because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the Sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:26²⁶The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:27²⁷Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning devouring the prey, and in the evening dividing the plunder.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:28²⁸These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:29²⁹Then he instructed them, “I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:30³⁰It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:31³¹There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:32³²The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 49:33³³When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s