1And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.

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Numbers 24:14, Numbers 24:14, Jeremiah 23:20, Daniel 10:14, Jeremiah 23:20

2Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel, your father:

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Psalms 34:11, Psalms 34:11, Proverbs 23:26, Proverbs 7:24, Proverbs 6:20

3Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow; excelling in gifts, greater in command.

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Deuteronomy 21:17, Psalms 78:51, Deuteronomy 21:17, Psalms 78:51, Psalms 105:36

4Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.

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Genesis 35:22, Genesis 35:22, 1 Chronicles 5:1, 1 Chronicles 5:1, Deuteronomy 27:20

5Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war.

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Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:31, Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:31, Genesis 29:33

6Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.

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Genesis 34:30, Genesis 34:30, Psalms 26:9, Psalms 26:9, Psalms 16:9

7Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

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Joshua 19:1, Joshua 19:9, 1 Chronicles 4:24, 1 Chronicles 4:31, Joshua 19:1

8Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the necks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.

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Genesis 27:29, Hebrews 7:14, Genesis 27:29, Hebrews 7:14, 1 Chronicles 5:2

9Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?

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Numbers 24:9, Numbers 24:9, Numbers 23:24, Revelation 5:5, Numbers 23:24

10The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

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Luke 1:32, Luke 1:33, Numbers 24:17, Luke 1:32, Luke 1:33

11Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the vine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.

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Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:3, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:3, Joel 3:18

12His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

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Proverbs 23:29, Proverbs 23:29

13Zabulon shall dwell on the seashore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.

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Deuteronomy 33:18, Deuteronomy 33:19, Deuteronomy 33:18, Deuteronomy 33:19, Genesis 30:20

14Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.

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Genesis 30:18, 1 Chronicles 12:32, Genesis 30:18, 1 Chronicles 12:32, Deuteronomy 33:18

15He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

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Psalms 81:6, Ezekiel 29:18, 2 Samuel 7:1, Matthew 23:4, Judges 3:11

16Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

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Deuteronomy 33:22, Genesis 30:6, Deuteronomy 33:22, Genesis 30:6, Judges 18:26

17Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.

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1 Chronicles 12:35, 1 Chronicles 12:35, Judges 18:22, Judges 18:31, Judges 18:22

18I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

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Psalms 119:166, Psalms 119:174, Psalms 119:166, Psalms 119:174, Micah 7:7

19Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.

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Genesis 30:11, Genesis 30:11, 1 Chronicles 5:26, 1 Chronicles 5:11, 1 Chronicles 5:22

20Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.

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Deuteronomy 33:24, Deuteronomy 33:25, Deuteronomy 33:24, Deuteronomy 33:25, Genesis 30:13

21Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.

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Deuteronomy 33:23, Deuteronomy 33:23, Genesis 30:8, Genesis 30:8, Genesis 46:24

22Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;

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Genesis 41:52, Genesis 41:52, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 1:3, Psalms 128:3

23But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.

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Genesis 37:24, Genesis 37:24, Psalms 64:3, Genesis 37:28, Psalms 64:3

24His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

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Psalms 132:2, Psalms 132:2, Psalms 132:5, Isaiah 28:16, Psalms 132:5

25The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

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Genesis 35:11, Genesis 28:13, Genesis 35:11, Genesis 28:13, Philippians 4:19

26The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

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Deuteronomy 33:15, Deuteronomy 33:16, Deuteronomy 33:15, Deuteronomy 33:16, Habakkuk 3:6

27Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.

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Genesis 35:18, Judges 20:25, Genesis 46:21, Ezekiel 22:27, Judges 20:21

28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one with their proper blessings.

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Revelation 7:4, Revelation 7:4, Esther 8:7, Esther 8:11, Acts 26:7

29And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,

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Genesis 50:13, Genesis 47:30, Genesis 50:13, Genesis 47:30, Genesis 15:15

30Over against Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought together with the field, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession to bury in.

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Genesis 23:16, Genesis 23:18, Genesis 23:8, Genesis 23:9, Genesis 23:20

31There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca, his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.

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Genesis 35:29, Genesis 25:9, Genesis 35:29, Genesis 25:9, Genesis 50:13

32And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.

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Genesis 23:17, Genesis 23:20, Genesis 23:17, Genesis 23:20