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49:1 Yacob’s individual words for his sons
49 Then Yacob called for all his sons and said, “Gather together, and I’ll reveal to you what will happen to you all in the years ahead.
2 Gather around and listen you sons of Yacob,
≈listen to your father Yisra’el.
≈my power and the beginning of my strength.
With excellence in dignity,
≈and excelling in power.
4 But you’re destructive like strong waters.
You climbed into my bed (with my slave wife).
≈You got onto my couch and defiled it.
Their swords are weapons of violence.
6 Don’t let my thoughts enter into their discussion.
≈Don’t let my honour join in their assembly.
They killed a man in their anger,
≈and they hamstrung an ox just for their pleasure.
7 Their fierce anger is cursed,
≈and their severe anger is determined.
I will divide them out among Yacob’s descendants,
≈and scatter them across Yisra’el.
8 Yehudah, you’ll be praised by your brothers.
You’ll be a powerful force against your enemies.
Your father’s sons will bow down to you.
My son, you’ve stood up after feasting on your prey.
He stretches and lies down like a lion.
As with a lioness, who will dare wake him?
10 Yehudah will never leave the ruling position,
≈nor will his descendants be without the ruler’s staff,
until the messiah arrives
and the people groups obey him.
11 He’ll tie his donkey to the grapevine,[fn]
≈and the donkey’s colt to the best branch.
He’ll wash his clothes in wine
≈and his robes in the blood of grapes.
12 His eyes will be darker than wine,
≈and his teeth will be white from milk.
13 Zebulun will settle near the coast,
and be like a safe harbour for ships.
His border will extend up to Tsidon.
14 Yissashkar (Issachar) is a strong donkey
lying down between the sheep pens.[fn]
15 He’ll see that his resting place is good
and that the land is pleasant.
He’ll strain his shoulders to carry a burden.
≈He’ll be forced to labour for others.
16 Dan (which means ‘judge’) will judge his people
like one of Yisra’el’s tribes.
17 He’ll be a snake beside the road,
≈a viper on the path,
and its rider falls backwards.
18 Yahweh, I’m waiting for you to save us.
19 Gad will be attacked by riders,
but he’ll attack them from behind.
20 Asher will enjoy delicious food,
and he’ll provide delicacies for a king.
21 Naftali is a doe that’s been untied.
22 Yosef is part of a fruit-bearing vine—
≈part of a fruit-bearing vine at a spring.
His branches will climb over the wall.
23 Expert archers will attack him,
and shoot and harass him.
24 But his bow will stay steady
≈and his arms will be made agile
by the hands of the mighty one of Yacob,
≈because of the shepherd who’s Yisra’el’s rock,
25 by the God of your father, and he will help you,
and with the provider,
and he will bless you with blessings from the heavens above
blessings of the deep that lies below,
and blessings of breasts and womb.
26 I’ve been blessed more than my ancestors were—
even with being gifted those ancient hills.
May those blessings now transfer to Yosef—
the one who was separated from all his brothers.
27 Benyamin is a ravenous wolf.
In the morning he devours his prey,
≈and in the evening he divides the plunder.
28 Those are Yisra’el’s twelve sons (that led to the twelve tribes) and that’s what their father said to them from his bed as he blessed each one of them—each one blessed appropriately.
49:29 Yacob’s death and burial
29 Then Yacob instructed them, “I’m about to go and join my ancestors. Bury me with them in the cave in the field that was bought from Efron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in Machpelah’s field in front of Mamre in Canaan. That’s the cave that my grandfather Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.[ref] 31 Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there, along with their son Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and I also buried my wife Le’ah there.[ref] 32 That field and the cave in it was bought from the descendants of Het. 33 When Yacob finished giving those instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up into the bed and lay and breathed his last and his spirit joined his ancestors.[ref]
49:11 This likely suggests such a surplus of fruit that it doesn’t even matter what the animals eat.
49:14 Or ‘between two saddlebags’.
49:21 Or ‘has beautiful fawns’.
49:8 Note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
49:10 Variant note: שילה: (x-qere) ’שִׁיל֔וֹ’: lemma_7886 n_0.1 morph_HNp id_01KU3 שִׁיל֔וֹ
49:11 Variant note: עיר/ה: (x-qere) ’עִיר֔/וֹ’: lemma_5895 n_1.1 morph_HNcmsc/Sp3ms id_01BN1 עִיר֔/וֹ
49:11 Variant note: סות/ה: (x-qere) ’סוּתֽ/וֹ’: lemma_5497 n_0 morph_HNcmsc/Sp3ms id_01Chx סוּתֽ/וֹ
49:26 Note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
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