{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/49","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T03:16:13.203Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":49,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":48,"nextChapter":50,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and listen to Israel your father."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"O my soul, come not you into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they dig down a wall."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Binding 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:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be to Zidon."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"I have waited for your salvation, O LORD."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Naphtali is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors 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 that was separate from his brothers."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Benjamin shall shred as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"And 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,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"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 burial plot."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"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 to his people."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 49 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Genesis 49](https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/49)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/49 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}