Genesis 49

1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days. 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; 3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; 4 Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; 6 O my soul, come not thou into their council; 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; 8 Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: 9 Judah is a lion’s whelp; 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; 14 Issachar is a strong ass, 15 And he saw a resting-place that it was good, 16 Dan shall judge his people, 17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah. 19 Gad, a troop shall press upon him; 20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, 21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, 24 But his bow abode in strength, 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, 26 The blessings of thy father 27 Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: 28 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. 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 is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 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 from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah— 32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.