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Genesis, starting at chapter 49
{49:1} Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the
days to come.
{49:2} Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob.
Listen to Israel, your father.
{49:3} "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of
my strength;
excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
{49:4} Boiling over as water, you shall not excel;
because you went up to your father's bed,
then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
{49:5} "Simeon and Levi are brothers.
Their swords are weapons of violence.
{49:6} My soul, don't come into their council.
My glory, don't be united to their assembly;
for in their anger they killed men.
In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
{49:7} Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel.
I will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
{49:8} "Judah, your brothers will praise you.
Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
Your father's sons will bow down before you.
{49:9} Judah is a lion's cub.
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion,
as a lioness.
Who will rouse him up?
{49:10} The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs.
To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
{49:11} Binding his foal to the vine,
his donkey's colt to the choice vine;
he has washed his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.
{49:12} His eyes will be red with wine,
his teeth white with milk.
{49:13} "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea.
He will be for a haven of ships.
His border will be on Sidon.
{49:14} "Issachar is a strong donkey,
lying down between the saddlebags.
{49:15} He saw a resting place, that it was good,
the land, that it was pleasant.
He bows his shoulder to the burden,
and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
{49:16} "Dan will judge his people,
as one of the tribes of Israel.
{49:17} Dan will be a serpent in the way,
an adder in the path,
That bites the horse's heels,
so that his rider falls backward.
{49:18} I have waited for your salvation, LORD.
{49:19} "A troop will press on Gad,
but he will press on their heel.
{49:20} "Asher's food will be rich.
He will yield royal dainties.
{49:21} "Naphtali is a doe set free,
who bears beautiful fawns.
{49:22} "Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine by a spring.
His branches run over the wall.
{49:23} The archers have severely grieved him,
shot at him, and persecute him:
{49:24} But his bow remained strong.
The arms of his hands were made strong,
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
{49:25} even by the God of your father, who will help you;
by the Almighty, who will bless you,
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies below,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
{49:26} The blessings of your father have prevailed above the
blessings of your ancestors,
above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
They will be on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
{49:27} "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
In the morning he will devour the prey.
At evening he will divide the spoil."
{49:28} All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what
their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone
according to his blessing. {49:29} He instructed 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, {49:30} 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 as a burial place. {49:31} There they buried Abraham and
Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and
there I buried Leah: {49:32} the field and the cave that is therein,
which was purchased from the children of Heth." {49:33} When Jacob
made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the
bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
{50:1} Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed
him. {50:2} Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm
his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. {50:3} Forty days were
fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm.
The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
{50:4} When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to
the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes,
please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, {50:5} 'My father made me
swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have
dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go
up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
{50:6} Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made
you swear."
{50:7} Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all
the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of
the land of Egypt, {50:8} all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and
his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their
herds, they left in the land of Goshen. {50:9} There went up with him
both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. {50:10} They
came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and
there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He
mourned for his father seven days. {50:11} When the inhabitants of the
land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they
said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its
name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. {50:12} His
sons did to him just as he commanded them, {50:13} for his sons
carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the
field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a
possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
{50:14} Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that
went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
{50:15} When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they
said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back
for all of the evil which we did to him." {50:16} They sent a message
to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,
{50:17} 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience
of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now,
please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your
father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. {50:18} His brothers also
went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are
your servants." {50:19} Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am
I in the place of God? {50:20} As for you, you meant evil against me,
but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to
save many people alive. {50:21} Now therefore don't be afraid. I will
nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly
to them.
{50:22} Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph
lived one hundred ten years. {50:23} Joseph saw Ephraim's children to
the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees. {50:24} Joseph said to his
brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up
out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob." {50:25} Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel,
saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones
from here." {50:26} So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old,
and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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