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Genesis Chapter 49

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In Genesis 49 Jacob delivers a blessing to his twelve sons, each receiving a distinct promise that reflects his hopes and concerns. He especially blesses Joseph, declaring that he will be his chief steward and that the family will gather around him, while also noting that the other sons will have their own families. The chapter highlights themes of family, legacy, and the fulfillment of divine promises.

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(1) And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
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Deuteronomy 31:12Deuteronomy 31:28Deuteronomy 31:29Deuteronomy 33:1Deuteronomy 33:2Deuteronomy 33:3Deuteronomy 33:4Deuteronomy 33:5Deuteronomy 33:6Deuteronomy 33:7Deuteronomy 33:8Deuteronomy 33:9

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Ezekiel 39:17Joel 3:11Zephaniah 2:1Isaiah 8:9

(2) Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
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Psalms 34:11Proverbs 1:8Proverbs 1:9Proverbs 4:1Proverbs 4:2Proverbs 4:3Proverbs 4:4Proverbs 5:1Proverbs 6:20Proverbs 7:1Proverbs 7:24Proverbs 8:32

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Ezekiel 39:17Joel 3:11Zephaniah 2:1Isaiah 8:9

(3) Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
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Genesis 29:32Genesis 46:8Genesis 48:18Numbers 1:20Numbers 26:5I Chronicles 2:1I Chronicles 5:1I Chronicles 5:3Deuteronomy 21:17Psalms 78:51Psalms 105:36

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Deuteronomy 21:17Psalms 68:34Exodus 11:5Exodus 12:29Exodus 13:15Isaiah 35:2

(4) 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.
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James 1:6James 1:7James 1:8II Peter 2:14II Peter 3:16Genesis 46:8Numbers 32:1Numbers 32:2Numbers 32:3Numbers 32:4Numbers 32:5Numbers 32:6

(5) Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
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Genesis 29:33Genesis 29:34Genesis 34:25Genesis 34:26Genesis 34:27Genesis 34:28Genesis 34:29Genesis 34:30Genesis 34:31Genesis 46:10Genesis 46:11Proverbs 18:9

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I Chronicles 28:14

(6) 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.
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Judges 5:21Psalms 42:5Psalms 42:11Psalms 43:5Psalms 103:1Jeremiah 4:19Luke 12:19Genesis 34:30Psalms 5:10Psalms 26:4Psalms 26:5Psalms 28:3

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Ezekiel 8:8II Chronicles 26:6

(7) 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.
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II Samuel 13:15II Samuel 13:22II Samuel 13:23II Samuel 13:24II Samuel 13:25II Samuel 13:26II Samuel 13:27II Samuel 13:28Proverbs 26:24Proverbs 26:25Proverbs 27:3Joshua 19:1

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Isaiah 13:9Proverbs 27:4Isaiah 13:13Zephaniah 2:2

(8) 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.
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Genesis 29:35Genesis 44:18Genesis 44:19Genesis 44:20Genesis 44:21Genesis 44:22Genesis 44:23Genesis 44:24Genesis 44:25Genesis 44:26Genesis 44:27Genesis 44:28

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Psalms 113:1Psalms 135:1Psalms 148:1Psalms 150:1

(9) 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?
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Hosea 5:4Hosea 5:14I Corinthians 15:24Revelation 5:5Numbers 23:24Numbers 24:9

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(10) 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.
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Numbers 24:17Psalms 60:7Jeremiah 30:21Hosea 11:12Ezekiel 19:11Ezekiel 19:14Zechariah 10:11Numbers 21:18Psalms 108:8Isaiah 33:22Deuteronomy 28:57Isaiah 9:6

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(11) 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:
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Isaiah 63:1Isaiah 63:2Isaiah 63:3I Kings 4:20I Kings 4:25II Kings 18:32Joel 3:18Micah 4:4Revelation 7:14Revelation 19:18

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(12) His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
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Proverbs 23:29

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(13) 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.
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Genesis 30:20Deuteronomy 33:18Deuteronomy 33:19Joshua 19:10Joshua 19:11Joshua 19:12Joshua 19:13Joshua 19:14Joshua 19:15Joshua 19:16

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(14) Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
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(15) 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.
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Joshua 14:15Judges 3:11II Samuel 7:1Psalms 81:6Ezekiel 29:18Matthew 23:4

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(16) Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Genesis 30:6Numbers 10:25Deuteronomy 33:22Judges 13:2Judges 13:24Judges 13:25Judges 15:20Judges 18:1Judges 18:2

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(17) 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.
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Judges 14:1Judges 14:2Judges 14:3Judges 14:4Judges 14:5Judges 14:6Judges 14:7Judges 14:8Judges 14:9Judges 14:10Judges 14:11Judges 14:12

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(18) I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
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Psalms 14:7Psalms 25:6Psalms 40:1Psalms 62:1Psalms 62:5Psalms 85:7Psalms 119:41Psalms 119:166Psalms 119:174Psalms 123:2Psalms 130:5Isaiah 8:17

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Isaiah 25:9

(19) Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
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Romans 12:21

(20) Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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Genesis 30:13Genesis 46:17Deuteronomy 33:24Deuteronomy 33:25Joshua 19:24Joshua 19:25Joshua 19:26Joshua 19:27Joshua 19:28Joshua 19:29Joshua 19:30Joshua 19:31

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(21) Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
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(22) Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
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Genesis 30:22Genesis 30:23Genesis 30:24Genesis 41:52Genesis 46:27Genesis 48:1Genesis 48:5Genesis 48:16Genesis 48:19Genesis 48:20Numbers 32:1Numbers 32:2

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(23) The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
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Genesis 37:4Genesis 37:18Genesis 37:24Genesis 37:28Genesis 39:7Genesis 39:8Genesis 39:9Genesis 39:10Genesis 39:11Genesis 39:12Genesis 39:13Genesis 39:14

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Deuteronomy 21:15

(24) But 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:)
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Nehemiah 6:9Psalms 27:14Psalms 28:8Psalms 89:1Colossians 1:11II Timothy 4:17Job 29:20Psalms 18:32Psalms 18:33Psalms 18:34Psalms 18:35Psalms 37:14

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I Samuel 17:49Isaiah 28:16Joshua 14:11II Kings 9:24Job 36:5Isaiah 5:22

(25) Even 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:
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(26) The 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.
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Genesis 27:27Genesis 27:28Genesis 27:29Genesis 27:39Genesis 27:40Genesis 28:3Genesis 28:4Ephesians 1:3Deuteronomy 33:15Psalms 89:36Isaiah 54:10Ezekiel 37:25

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(27) Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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(28) All 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.
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Numbers 23:24Esther 8:7Esther 8:9Esther 8:11Esther 9:1Esther 9:2Esther 9:3Esther 9:4Esther 9:5Esther 9:6Esther 9:7Esther 9:8

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(29) And 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,
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Romans 12:6Romans 12:7Romans 12:8Romans 12:9Romans 12:10Romans 12:11Romans 12:12Romans 12:13Romans 12:14Romans 12:15Romans 12:16Romans 12:17

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(30) In 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.
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Genesis 23:8

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(31) There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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(32) The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
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Genesis 23:17Genesis 23:18Genesis 23:19Genesis 23:20

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(33) And 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.
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Genesis 49:1Genesis 49:24Genesis 49:25Genesis 49:26Joshua 24:27Joshua 24:28Joshua 24:29Hebrews 11:22Genesis 49:29Genesis 15:5Genesis 25:8Genesis 25:17

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