1 Then Jacob called his sons, and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in days to come.
2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father.
3 Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the first fruits of my strength, pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.
4 Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it -- you went up to my couch!
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.
6 O my soul, come not into their council; O my spirit, be not joined to their company; for in their anger they slay men, and in their wantonness they hamstring oxen.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
11 Binding his foal to the vine and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washes his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes;
12 his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13 Zeb'ulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.
14 Is'sachar is a strong ass, crouching between the sheepfolds;
15 he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a slave at forced labor.
16 Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.
18 I wait for thy salvation, O LORD.
19 Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.
20 Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21 Naph'tali is a hind let loose, that bears comely fawns.
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
23 The archers fiercely attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him sorely;
24 yet his bow remained unmoved, his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel),
25 by the God of your father who will help you, by God Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that couches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26 The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was separate from his brothers.
27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey, and at even dividing the spoil."
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel; and this is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
29 Then he charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to 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 at Mach-pe'lah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as 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 in it were purchased from the Hittites."
33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, and breathed his last, and 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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