1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;
3Reuben, thou art my firstborn,
4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel;
5Simeon and Levi are brethren;
6O my soul, come not thou into their secret;
7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
8Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:
9Judah is a lion’s whelp:
10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
11Binding his foal unto the vine,
12His eyes shall be red with wine,
13Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea;
14Issachar is a strong ass
15And he saw that rest was good,
16Dan shall judge his people,
17Dan shall be a serpent by the way,
18I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
19Gad, a troop shall overcome him:
20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat,
21Naphtali is a hind let loose:
22Joseph is a fruitful bough,
23The archers have sorely grieved him,
24But his bow abode in strength,
25Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee;
26The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors
27Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf:
28All 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.
29And 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,
30in 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.
31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
33And 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.