1 Jacob called his sons and said, 'Gather round, so that I can tell you what is in store for you in the final days.
2 Gather round, sons of Jacob, and listen; listen to Israel your father.
3 Reuben, you are my first-born, my vigour, and the first-fruit of my manhood, foremost in pride, foremost in strength,
4 uncontrolled as water: you will not be foremost, for you climbed into your father's bed, and so defiled my couch, to my sorrow.
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers in carrying out their malicious plans.
6 May my soul not enter their council nor my heart join their company, for in their rage they have killed men and hamstrung oxen at their whim.
7 Accursed be their rage for its ruthlessness, their wrath for its ferocity. I shall disperse them in Jacob, I shall scatter them through Israel.
8 Judah, your brothers will praise you: you grip your enemies by the neck, your father's sons will do you homage.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp; You stand over your prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, a mighty lion: who dare rouse him?
10 The sceptre shall not pass from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute be brought him and the peoples render him obedience.
11 He tethers his donkey to the vine, to its stock the foal of his she-donkey. He washes his clothes in wine, his robes in the blood of the grape.
12 His eyes are darkened with wine and his teeth are white with milk.
13 Zebulun will live by the seashore and be a sailor on board the ships, with Sidon on his flank.
14 Issachar is a strong donkey lying down among sheepfolds.
15 When he saw how good the resting-place and how pleasant the country, he bowed his shoulder to the load and became a slave to forced labour.
16 Dan will govern his people like any other of the tribes of Israel.
17 May Dan be a snake on the road, a viper on the path, who bites the horse on the hock so that its rider falls off backwards!
18 I long for your deliverance, Yahweh!
19 Gad will be raided by raiders, and he will raid at their heels.
20 Rich the food produced by Asher: he will furnish food fit for kings.
21 Naphtali is a swift hind bearing lovely fawns.
22 Joseph is a fruitful plant near a spring whose tendrils reach over the wall.
23 Archers in their hostility drew their bows and attacked him.
24 But their bows were broken by a mighty One, the sinews of their arms were snapped by the power of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the Name of the Stone of Israel,
25 the God of your father who assists you, El Shaddai who blesses you: blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep lying below, blessings of the breasts and womb,
26 blessings of the grain and flowers, blessings of the eternal mountains, bounty of the everlasting hills -- may they descend on Joseph's head, on the crown of the one dedicated from among his brothers!
27 Benjamin is a ravening wolf, in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he is still sharing out the spoil.'
28 All these make up the tribes of Israel, twelve in number, and this is what their father said to them as he bade them farewell, giving each an appropriate blessing.
29 Then he gave them these instructions, 'I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in Canaan, which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.
31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried. There Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah-
32 the field and the cave in it which were bought from the Hittites.'
33 When Jacob had finished giving his instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, and breathing his last was gathered to his people.
Versículos relacionados com Genesis, 49:
Genesis 49 is the chapter in which Jacob blesses his children before he dies. Each child receives an individual blessing, based on their past character and actions. The verses chosen below address topics such as leadership, justice, war and prosperity:
Deuteronomy 33:5: "Thus he became king in Jesurum, when the heads of the people gathered, all the tribes of Israel together." This verse talks about God's leadership over Israel and can be related to the blessing that Jacob gives Judah in Genesis 49:10, when he says the scepter will not move away from Judah, and that his descendants will come the leader.
Proverbs 29:14: "A king who judges the poor with equity will have his throne established forever." This verse talks about justice in leadership and can be related to the blessing that Jacob gives Ruben in Genesis 49:4, when he says that Rúben is unstable as water and will have no leadership position.
Psalm 144:1: "Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands to war and my fingers to battle." This verse talks about the preparation for war and can be related to the blessing that Jacob gives the gad in Genesis 49:19, when he says that Gade will be attacked, but will resist as a combat troop.
Deuteronomy 33:13-16: "Benjamin is the beloved of the Lord; He lives safely by his side. The Lord keeps him all the time, and protects him as man protects his own son. At that time, Jacob blessed the tribe of Joseph. He said, 'May the Lord bless the earth with the best rain in heaven, with the moisture that comes from the depths of the earth, with the best fruits of the sun, with the most tasty harvests. " These verses talk about prosperity and can be related to the blessing that Jacob gives Joseph in Genesis 49:22-26, when he talks about how Joseph is a fruitful vine that grows abundantly.
Psalm 60:4: "But for those who fear you, she had a flag to be saved from all arches." This verse talks about salvation in difficult times and can be related to the blessing that Jacob gives dã in Genesis 49:16-18, when he talks about how he will judge his people and will be a serpent on the edge of the path that bites the horse.
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