{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Genesis",
 "chapter": 49,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "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:"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:"
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:"
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "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:)"
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "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:"
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "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,"
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "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."
  }
 ],
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