ABP - Genesis - 49

49:1  [3called 1And 2Jacob] his sons, and said, Come together that I may announce to you what will meet to you upon the last of the days!

49:2  Gather and hear, O sons of Jacob, hear Israel your father!

49:3  Reuben my first-born, you are my strength and the beginning of my children, stubborn to bear, and stubborn self-willed.

49:4  Overflowing as water, you should not erupt. For you ascended upon the marriage-bed of your father. Then you defiled the strewn bed of which you ascended.

49:5  Simeon and Levi -- brothers. They completed injustice by their sects.

49:6  [5into 6their counsel 1May 3not 4come 2my soul], and [5with 6their joint-conspiracy 1may 3not 4be established 2my insides]. For in their rage they killed men, and in their passion they hamstrung a bull.

49:7  Accursed is their rage, for it was self-willed. And accursed is their vehement anger, for it was hardened. I will divide them in Jacob, and disseminate them in Israel.

49:8  Judah, may [3have praised you 2your brothers]. Your hands are upon the back of your enemies. [4will do obeisance to 5you 1The 2sons 3of your father];

49:9  [3cub 2a lion 1Judah is]. From a bud, O son of mine, you ascended. Reclining, you went to bed as a lion; and as a cub who will rouse him?

49:10  [2shall not fail 1A ruler] from Judah, and one leading from his thighs, until whenever should come the things reserved to him. And he is expectation of nations.

49:11  Binding [2to 3a grapevine 1his foal], and with the fetter the foal of his donkey. He shall wash [2in 3wine 1his apparel], and in the blood of the grape his wrap-around garment.

49:12  [2causing joy 1His eyes] away from wine, and the white of his teeth than milk.

49:13  Zebulun [2on the coast 1shall dwell], even himself by the mooring of boats; and he shall extend until Sidon.

49:14  Issachar [2the 3good 1desired], taking rest between the lots.

49:15  And seeing the rest, that it was good, and the earth, that it was plentiful, he placed his shoulder to the toil, and became a man for farming.

49:16  Dan will judge his people, as even one tribe in Israel.

49:17  And let Dan become a serpent upon the way, lying in wait upon the road, biting the heel of the horse. And [3shall fall 1the 2horseman] upon the rear places,

49:18  [2for the 3deliverance 1remaining about] of the lord.

49:19  Gad, a marauder will maraud against him. But he will maraud against him by feet.

49:20  Asher, plentiful is his bread, and he will give a delicacy to rulers.

49:21  Naphtali, a trunk springing up giving [2in 3the 4offspring 1beauty].

49:22  [2a son 3increasing 1Joseph is]; [2son 3increasing 1zealous]; [3son 1my 2younger]; to me you returned!

49:23  against whom with deliberation reviled. And [3pressed against 4him 1the masters 2of the bowmen],

49:24  and [2were broken 3with 4might 1their bows], and [5were loosened 1the 2nerves 4arms 3of their hand's] through the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; from there the one strengthening Israel by means of God of your father.

49:25  And [2gave help 3to you 1my God], and blessed you with the blessing of heaven above, and the blessing of earth having all things; because of the blessing of breasts and of the womb;

49:26  a blessing of your father and of your mother -- he excelled in strength over the blessing [2mountains 1of the stable], and beyond the blessings [2hills 1of everlasting]; they will be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top [2whom 3he took the lead 1of the brothers].

49:27  Benjamin, [2wolf 1a predacious 4in the 5early morning 3shall eat], yet even in the evening he distributes provisions.

49:28  All these sons of Jacob -- twelve. And these words [2said 3to them 1their father]. And he blessed them each. According to his blessing he blessed them.

49:29  And he said to them, I am added to my people. Entomb me with my fathers in the cave which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite!

49:30  in the [2cave 1double], in the one before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham acquired; the cave of Ephron the Hittite, for possession of a memorial.

49:31  There they entombed Abraham and Sarah his wife. And there they entombed Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there they entombed Leah,

49:32  in a property of the field, and of the cave being in it, the one from the sons of Heth.

49:33  And Jacob rested giving orders to his sons. And lifting up his feet upon the bed he failed. And he was added to his people.