# Genesis 49

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/49

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Jacob called his sons and said, "Assemble, that I may tell you what will happen to you in the final days."
2. Gather together and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to Israel your father.
3. Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, superior in dignity and superior in power.
4. Unstable like water, you shall not excel, because you climbed to your father's bed; then you defiled it—he climbed to my couch.
5. Simeon and Levi are brothers with weapons of violence in their dwellings.
6. My soul, do not enter their council; my glory, do not join their assembly, for in their anger they killed a man, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.
7. Their anger is bitterly cursed for its ferocity, and their wrath for its cruelty. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
8. Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father's sons will bow down to you.
9. Judah, a lion cub—from the prey, my son, you rose up; he bent low, he lay down like a lion, like a lioness. Who will awaken him?
10. The rod will not depart from Judah, nor a ruler from between his feet, until Shiloh comes—and to him the obedience of the peoples.
11. He binds his colt to the vine, his donkey's foal to the choice vine; he washes his garments in wine, his clothes in the blood of grapes.
12. His eyes red from wine, his teeth white from milk.
13. Zebulun will live by the seashore; he will be a harbor for ships, and his border will reach Sidon.
14. Issachar is a sturdy donkey crouching between the sheepfolds.
15. He saw that a resting place was good and that the land was pleasant. He bowed his shoulder to carry burdens and became a laborer in forced service.
16. Dan will judge his people as one of Israel's tribes.
17. Dan will become a serpent upon the way, an adder upon the path, the one biting a horse's heels so its rider falls backward.
18. I wait for your salvation, Yahweh.
19. Gad, a raiding band will raid him, but he will raid their heel.
20. Asher's bread will be rich, and he will give king's delicacies.
21. Naphtali is a doe sent forth, who delivers beautiful words.
22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring whose branches run over the wall.
23. The archers embittered him, shot arrows at him, and opposed him.
24. His bow held firm in strength, and the arms of his hands were braced by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob—from there the shepherd, the stone of Israel.
25. from the God of your father, who will help you, and by the Almighty, who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep crouching below, blessings of the breasts and womb.
26. The blessings of your father surpass the blessings of my ancestors, reaching to the utmost heights of the everlasting hills. They will be on Joseph's head, on the crown of the one set apart from his brothers.
27. Benjamin is a wolf who tears and eats prey in the morning and distributes plunder in the evening.
28. All these are Israel's twelve tribes, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them, each according to his own blessing.
29. He commanded them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that lies in the field of Ephron the Hittite."
30. in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which faces Mamre in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial possession.
31. There Abraham and Sarah, his wife, were buried; there Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, were buried; and there I buried Leah.
32. the purchase of the field and the cave that is in it from the sons of Heth.
33. When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 48](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/48.md)
[Genesis 50](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/50.md)

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