WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.020 Chapter 49 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, 00:06.620 --> 00:11.800 that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 00:12.580 --> 00:20.000 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto Israel 00:20.000 --> 00:20.760 your father. 00:21.440 --> 00:28.360 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my 00:28.360 --> 00:35.620 strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. 00:36.440 --> 00:40.700 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 00:41.660 --> 00:48.560 Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, then defiledst thou it, he went up to 00:48.560 --> 00:49.220 my couch. 00:50.600 --> 00:57.820 Simeon and Levi are brethren, instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 00:57.820 --> 01:02.520 O my soul, come not thou into their secret. 01:03.540 --> 01:08.140 Unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united. 01:08.840 --> 01:15.860 For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they dig down a 01:15.860 --> 01:16.180 wall. 01:17.660 --> 01:23.940 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. 01:23.940 --> 01:29.320 I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 01:31.040 --> 01:36.200 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise. 01:36.760 --> 01:40.620 Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies. 01:41.640 --> 01:46.200 Thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 01:47.060 --> 01:49.320 Judah is a lion's whelp. 01:49.320 --> 01:54.060 From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. 01:54.900 --> 01:58.540 He stooped down, he couched as a lion. 01:59.340 --> 02:03.440 And as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? 02:04.140 --> 02:10.480 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet. 02:11.160 --> 02:17.400 Until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 02:17.400 --> 02:25.000 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine. 02:25.680 --> 02:32.740 He washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. 02:33.320 --> 02:39.480 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 02:40.440 --> 02:43.920 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea. 02:44.480 --> 02:47.460 And he shall be for an haven of ships. 02:47.980 --> 02:50.800 And his border shall be unto Zidon. 02:51.980 --> 02:57.600 Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens. 02:58.520 --> 03:03.240 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant. 03:03.240 --> 03:09.740 And bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 03:11.120 --> 03:16.360 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 03:17.280 --> 03:23.280 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path. 03:23.820 --> 03:28.920 That biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 03:28.920 --> 03:33.580 I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. 03:34.820 --> 03:38.340 Gad, a troop, shall overcome him. 03:39.040 --> 03:42.220 But he shall overcome at the last. 03:43.460 --> 03:47.160 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat. 03:47.800 --> 03:50.740 And he shall yield royal dainties. 03:52.020 --> 03:55.660 Naphtali is a hind let loose. 03:55.660 --> 03:58.460 He giveth goodly words. 03:59.940 --> 04:06.280 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well. 04:07.380 --> 04:09.880 Whose branches run over the wall. 04:10.820 --> 04:16.880 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him. 04:17.460 --> 04:20.540 But his bow abode in strength. 04:20.540 --> 04:28.280 And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. 04:29.200 --> 04:33.580 From thence is the shepherd the stone of Israel. 04:34.280 --> 04:38.160 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee. 04:38.680 --> 04:44.700 And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above. 04:45.540 --> 04:48.260 Blessings of the deep that lieth under. 04:48.260 --> 04:53.220 Blessings of the breasts and of the womb. 04:54.060 --> 05:01.260 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors. 05:02.300 --> 05:06.620 Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. 05:07.100 --> 05:10.800 They shall be on the head of Joseph. 05:11.380 --> 05:17.560 And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 05:19.160 --> 05:21.660 Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. 05:22.360 --> 05:25.180 In the morning he shall devour the prey. 05:25.900 --> 05:29.020 And at night he shall divide the spoil. 05:29.400 --> 05:31.460 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. 05:31.840 --> 05:34.960 And this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them. 05:35.300 --> 05:37.580 Every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 05:37.820 --> 05:39.600 And he charged them and said unto them. 05:39.960 --> 05:42.840 I am to be gathered unto my people. 05:42.840 --> 05:49.640 Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite. 05:50.140 --> 05:53.800 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah. 05:54.360 --> 05:57.980 Which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan. 05:58.700 --> 06:03.100 Which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite. 06:03.660 --> 06:06.380 For a possession of a burying place. 06:07.440 --> 06:11.940 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. 06:11.940 --> 06:17.620 There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. 06:18.360 --> 06:21.520 And there I buried Leah. 06:22.820 --> 06:28.940 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of 06:28.940 --> 06:29.480 Heth. 06:29.760 --> 06:32.480 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons. 06:32.640 --> 06:37.520 He gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto 06:37.520 --> 06:38.100 his people. 06:38.100 --> 06:38.320 The end.