Genesis · Chapter 49

Genesis 49:12

¹And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.²Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.³Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:⁴Unstable 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.⁵Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.⁶O 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.⁷Cursed 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.⁸Judah, 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.⁹Judah 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?¹⁰The 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.¹¹Binding 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:¹²His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.¹³Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.¹⁴Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:¹⁵And 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.¹⁶Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.¹⁷Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.¹⁸I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.¹⁹Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.²⁰Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.²¹Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.²²Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:²³The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: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 thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)²⁵Even 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:²⁶The 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.²⁷Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.²⁸All 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.²⁹And 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,³⁰In 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.³¹There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.³²The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.³³And 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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Verse	KJV	BSB	ASV
12	His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.	His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.	His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
dark of	חַכְלִילִ֥י	chakh-li-LI	H2447	dull חַכְלִילִי (chakh.lil) 1) dull 2) (CLBL) dark-flashing, brilliant
eyes	עֵינַ֖יִם	'ei-NA-yim	H5869A	eye עַ֫יִן (a.yin) : eye 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)
more than wine	מִיָּ֑יִן	mi-YA-yin	H3196	wine יַ֫יִן (ya.yin) wine
and white of	וּלְבֶן־	u-le-ven-	H3836	white לָבָן (la.van) white
teeth	שִׁנַּ֖יִם	shi-NA-yim	H8127G	tooth שֵׁן (shen) : tooth 1) tooth, ivory 1a) tooth 1a1) of man, lex talionis, beast 1b) tooth, tine (of fork) 1c) ivory 1c1) as material 1c2) of commerce 1d) sharp pointed rock
more than milk	מֵחָלָֽב׃ פ	me-cha-LAV	H2461	milk חָלָב (cha.lav) 1) milk, sour milk, cheese 1a) milk 1b) abundance of the land (metaph.) 1c) white (as milk)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.