1And Jacob called to his sons and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the days to come.

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

2Gather yourselves together, and hear, sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.

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

3Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.

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

4Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my 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 are brothers; tools of violence are their weapons.

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

6Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull.

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

7Let their anger be cursed, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and 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

8Judah, may your brothers praise you. May your hand be in the neck of your enemies. May your father's sons bow before you.

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

9Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have gone up from the prey. He stooped, he crouched like a lion; and like 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 scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come. And the obedience of the peoples to him.

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

11Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.

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

12His eyes shall be sparkling with wine, and his teeth white from milk.

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Proverbs 23:29, Proverbs 23:29

13Zebulun shall live at the sea shore. And he shall be a haven for ships, and his border beside Sidon.

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

14Issachar is a strong ass crouching down between the sheepfolds.

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

15And he saw that rest was good and that the land was pleasant. And he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tribute-slave.

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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, as one of the tribes of Israel.

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

17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that its rider shall fall backward.

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

18I have waited for Your salvation, O LORD.

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

19Gad, raiders shall attack him, and he shall attack their heel.

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

20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

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

21Naphtali is a deer let loose. He gives goodly words.

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

22Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a well, whose branches run over the wall.

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

23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and an archer lurks for him.

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

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 the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel);

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

25by the God of your father, who shall help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, 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 your father are above the blessings of my ancestors, to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him, the ruler, the leader of his brothers.

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

27Benjamin is a wolf that tears in pieces. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he 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 were the twelve tribes of Israel. And this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them; everyone according to his blessing he blessed them.

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

29And he charged them and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

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

30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying-place.

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

31They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And I buried Leah there;

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

32the purchase of the field and the cave in it, from the sons of Heth.

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

33And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.

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Genesis 49:29, Genesis 49:29, Genesis 25:8, Genesis 25:8, Genesis 25:17