01:049:002 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye
sons of Jacob; and
hearken
unto Israel your father.
01:049:003 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might,
and the beginning of
my
strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency
of
power:
01:049:004 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel;
because thou wentest
up
to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it:
he went up to
my
couch.
01:049:005 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments
of cruelty are in
their
habitations.
01:049:006 O my soul, come not thou into their secret;
unto their
assembly,
mine honour, be not thou united: for in their
anger
they
slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down
a
wall.
01:049:007 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.
01:049:008 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall
praise: thy hand
shall
be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s
children
shall
bow down before thee.
01:049:009 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from
the prey, my son, thou art gone
up:
he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old
lion;
who
shall rouse him up?
01:049:010 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from
between
his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering
of the people be.
01:049:011 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his
ass’s colt unto the
choice
vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes
in
the blood of grapes:
01:049:012 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his
teeth white with
milk.
01:049:013 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the
sea; and he shall be
for
an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
01:049:014 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
01:049:015 And he saw that rest was good, and the
land that it was
pleasant;
and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant
unto
tribute.
01:049:016 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
01:049:017 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder
in the path, that
biteth
the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
01:049:018 I have waited for thy salvation, O lord.
01:049:019 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but
he shall overcome at the
last.
01:049:020 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and
he shall yield royal
dainties.
01:049:021 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.


