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he shalbe great likewise: but his yonger brother and that the land is pleasant, and he shall bow
shalbe greater then he, and his seede shall be full his shoulder to beare, and shalbe subiect vnto
of nations. 20 So he blessed them that day, and tribute. 16 Dan shall iudge his people as one of
sayde, In thee Israel shall blesse, and say, God the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by
make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh. and he the way, an adder by the path, byting the horse
set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 Then Israel said heeles, so that his rider shall fall backward. 18 O
vnto Ioseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with Lord, I haue waited for thy saluation. 19 Gad, an
you, and bring you againe vnto the land of your hoste of men shall ouercome him, but he shall
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fathers. 22 Moreouer, I haue giuen vnto thee one ouercome at the last. Concerning Asher, his
portion aboue thy brethren, which I gate out of bread shalbe fat, and he shall giue pleasures for
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the hand of the Amorite by my sworde and by my a king. Naphtali shalbe a hinde let goe, giu-
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bowe. ing goodly wordes. Ioseph shalbe a fruitefull
bough, euen a fruitful bough by the well side: the
49 small boughs shall runne vpon the wall. 23 And
the archers grieued him, and shotte against him
1 Then Iaakob called his sonnes, and sayde, and hated him. 24 But his bowe abode strong,
Gather your selues together, that I may tell and the hands of his armes were strengthened,
you what shall come to you in the last dayes. by the handes of the mighty God of Iaakob, of
2 Gather your selues together, and heare, ye whom was the feeder appointed, by the stone of
sonnes of Iaakob, and hearken vnto Israel your Israel, 25 Euen by the God of thy father, who shall
father. 3 Reuben mine eldest sonne, thou art helpe thee, and by the almightie, who shall blesse
my might, and the beginning of my strength,
the excellencie of dignitie, and the excellencie thee with heauenly blessinges from aboue, with
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of power: Thou wast light as water: thou shalt blessings of the deepe, that lyeth beneath, with
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not be excellent, because thou wentest vp to thy blessings of the brestes, and of the wombe. The
blessings of thy father shalbe stronger then the
fathers bed: then diddest thou defile my bed, blessings of mine elders: vnto the ende of the
thy dignitie is gone. Simeon and Leui, brethren hilles of the worlde they shall be on the head
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in euill, the instruments of crueltie are in their
habitations. 6 Into their secret let not my soule of Ioseph, and on the top of the head of him
come: my glory, be not thou ioyned with their that was separate from his brethren. 27 Beniamin
assembly: for in their wrath they slew a man, shall rauine as a wolfe: in the morning he shall
and in their selfe will they digged downe a wall. deuoure the pray, and at night he shall deuide
7 Cursed be their wrath, for it was fierce, and the spoyle. 28 All these are the twelue tribes of
their rage, for it was cruell: I will deuide them Israel, and thus their father spake vnto them, and
in Iaakob, and scatter them in Israel. 8 Thou blessedthem: eueryoneofthemblessedheewith
Iudah, thy brethre shall praise thee: thine hande a seuerall blessing. 29 And he charged them and
shalbe in the necke of thine enemies: thy fathers sayd vnto them, I am ready to be gathered vnto
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sonnes shall bowe downe vnto thee. Iudah, as a my people: burie mee with my fathers in the
Lions whelpe shalt thou come vp from the spoyle, caue, that is in the fielde of Ephron the Hittite,
my sonne. He shall lye downe and couche as a 30 In the caue that is in the field of Machpelah
Lion, and as a Lionesse: Who shall stirre him vp? besides Mamre in the land of Canaan: which caue
10 The scepter shall not depart from Iudah, nor a Abraham bought with the fielde of Ephron the
Lawegiuer from betweene his feete, vntill Shiloh Hittite for a possession to burie in. 31 There they
come, and the people shall be gathered vnto him. buried Abraham and Sarah his wife: there they
11 He shall binde his Asse foale vnto ye vine, and buryed Izhak and Rebekah his wife: and there I
his Asses colte vnto the best vine. hee shall wash buried Leah. 32 The purchase of the fielde and the
his garment in wine, and his cloke in the blood of caue that is therein, was bought of the children
grapes. 12 His eyes shalbe red with wine, and his of Heth. 33 Thus Iaakob made an end of giuing
teeth white with milke. 13 Zebulun shall dwell by charge to his sonnes, and plucked vp his feete
the sea side, and he shalbe an hauen for shippes: into the bed and gaue vp the ghost, and was
and his border shalbe vnto Zidon. 14 Issachar gathered to his people.
shalbe a strong asse, couching downe betweene
two burdens: 15 And he shall see that rest is good,