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Genesis 49

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  1. 1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.51 cross-references: Numbers 24:14, Jeremiah 23:20, Daniel 10:14, Deuteronomy 4:30, Psalms 105:15
  2. 2Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.13 cross-references: Psalms 34:11, Proverbs 23:26, Proverbs 7:24, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 8:32
  3. 3Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:30 cross-references: Deuteronomy 21:17, Psalms 78:51, Psalms 105:36, Genesis 29:32, 1 Chronicles 5:3
  4. 4Unstable 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.23 cross-references: Genesis 35:22, 1 Chronicles 5:1, Deuteronomy 27:20, Deuteronomy 33:6, 1 Corinthians 5:1
  5. 5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.19 cross-references: Genesis 34:25–31, Genesis 29:33–34, Proverbs 18:9, Genesis 46:10–11
  6. 6O 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.33 cross-references: Genesis 34:30, Psalms 26:9, Psalms 16:9, Psalms 64:2, Psalms 26:4–5
  7. 7Cursed 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.22 cross-references: Joshua 19:1–9, 1 Chronicles 4:24–31, Proverbs 26:24–25, Proverbs 27:3, Joshua 21:1–45
  8. 8Judah, 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.64 cross-references: Genesis 27:29, Hebrews 7:14, 1 Chronicles 5:2, Genesis 29:35, Deuteronomy 33:7
  9. 9Judah 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?23 cross-references: Numbers 24:9, Numbers 23:24, Revelation 5:5, Micah 5:8, Hosea 5:14
  10. 10The 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.135 cross-references: Luke 1:32–33, Numbers 24:17, Isaiah 9:6, Jeremiah 23:5–6, Psalms 60:7
  11. 11Binding 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:12 cross-references: Isaiah 63:1–3, Joel 3:18, Revelation 7:14, 1 Kings 4:25, Micah 4:4
  12. 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.3 cross-references: Proverbs 23:29
  13. 13Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.18 cross-references: Deuteronomy 33:18–19, Genesis 30:20, Joshua 19:10–16
  14. 14Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:14 cross-references: Genesis 30:18, 1 Chronicles 12:32, Deuteronomy 33:18, Joshua 19:17–23, Judges 5:15–16
  15. 15And 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.10 cross-references: Psalms 81:6, Ezekiel 29:18, 2 Samuel 7:1, Matthew 23:4, Judges 3:11
  16. 16Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.13 cross-references: Deuteronomy 33:22, Genesis 30:6, Judges 18:26–27, Judges 15:20, Numbers 10:25
  17. 17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.6 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 12:35, Judges 18:22–31, Judges 14:1–15, Judges 16:22–30
  18. 18I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.56 cross-references: Psalms 119:166, Psalms 119:174, Micah 7:7, Isaiah 25:9, Psalms 130:5
  19. 19Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.14 cross-references: Genesis 30:11, 1 Chronicles 5:26, 1 Chronicles 5:11–22, Joshua 13:8, Genesis 46:16
  20. 20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.11 cross-references: Deuteronomy 33:24–25, Genesis 30:13, Genesis 46:17, Joshua 19:24–31
  21. 21Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.14 cross-references: Deuteronomy 33:23, Genesis 30:8, Genesis 46:24, Joshua 19:32–39, Psalms 18:33–34
  22. 22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:28 cross-references: Genesis 41:52, Psalms 1:1–3, Psalms 128:3, Genesis 30:22–24, Genesis 46:27
  23. 23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:23 cross-references: Genesis 37:24, Psalms 64:3, Genesis 37:28, Genesis 42:21, John 16:33
  24. 24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)59 cross-references: Psalms 132:2, Psalms 132:5, Isaiah 28:16, Job 29:20, Psalms 80:1
  25. 25Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:27 cross-references: Genesis 35:11, Genesis 28:13, Philippians 4:19, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 33:13–17
  26. 26The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.22 cross-references: Deuteronomy 33:15–16, Habakkuk 3:6, Genesis 27:27–29, Psalms 105:17–22, Ezekiel 37:25–26
  27. 27Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.27 cross-references: Genesis 35:18, Judges 20:25, Genesis 46:21, Ezekiel 22:27, Judges 20:21
  28. 28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.24 cross-references: Revelation 7:4, Esther 8:7, Esther 8:11, Acts 26:7, 1 Kings 18:31
  29. 29And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,22 cross-references: Genesis 50:13, Genesis 47:30, Genesis 15:15, Romans 12:6–21, 2 Samuel 19:37
  30. 30In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.7 cross-references: Genesis 23:16–18, Genesis 23:8–9, Genesis 23:20
  31. 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.12 cross-references: Genesis 35:29, Genesis 25:9, Genesis 50:13, Genesis 47:30, Genesis 23:3
  32. 32The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.1 cross-reference: Genesis 23:17–20
  33. 33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.26 cross-references: Genesis 49:29, Genesis 25:8, Genesis 25:17, Hebrews 11:13–16, Joshua 24:27–29

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Jacob, Judah, God, Dan, Joseph, Ephron, Abraham, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Jesus Christ, Zebulun, Issachar, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Benjamin, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Leah, Heth

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Sidon, Zebulun, Mamre, Canaan, Machpelah

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