{"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/kjv/genesis/49","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T07:53:16.960Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":49,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":48,"nextChapter":50,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you <i>that</i> which shall befall you in the last days."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Reuben, thou <i>art</i> 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, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou <i>it</i>: he went up to my couch."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Simeon and Levi <i>are</i> brethren; instruments of cruelty <i>are in</i> their habitations."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Cursed <i>be</i> their anger, for <i>it was</i> fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Judah, thou <i>art he</i> whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand <i>shall be</i> in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Judah <i>is</i> 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?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him <i>shall</i> the gathering of the people <i>be</i>."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"His eyes <i>shall be</i> red with wine, and his teeth white with milk."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he <i>shall be</i> for an haven of ships; and his border <i>shall be</i> unto Zidon."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Issachar <i>is</i> a strong ass couching down between two burdens:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And he saw that rest <i>was</i> good, and the land that <i>it was</i> pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto 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 biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"I have waited for thy 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 <i>shall be</i> fat, and he shall yield royal dainties."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Naphtali <i>is</i> a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Joseph <i>is</i> a fruitful bough, <i>even</i> a fruitful bough by a well; <i>whose</i> branches run over the wall:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot <i>at him</i>, and hated him:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty <i>God</i> of Jacob; (from thence <i>is</i> the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"<i>Even</i> 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:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Benjamin shall ravin <i>as</i> a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"All these <i>are</i> the twelve tribes of Israel: and this <i>is it</i> that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"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 <i>is</i> in the field of Ephron the Hittite,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"In the cave that <i>is</i> in the field of Machpelah, which <i>is</i> before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace."},{"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 <i>is</i> therein <i>was</i> 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 unto his people."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 49 (KJV)","markdown":"[Genesis 49](https://primebible.com/kjv/genesis/49)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/genesis/49 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}