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AND JACOB CALLED UNTO HIS SONS,<\/strong><\/p>\n AND SAID,<\/strong><\/p>\n GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER,<\/strong><\/p>\n THAT I MAY TELL YOU<\/strong><\/p>\n THAT WHICH SHALL BEFALL YOU<\/strong><\/p>\n IN THE LAST DAYS.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gather yourselves together,<\/p>\n and hear,<\/p>\n ye sons of Jacob;<\/p>\n and hearken unto Israel<\/p>\n your father.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n REUBEN<\/strong>,<\/p>\n thou art my firstborn,<\/p>\n my might,<\/p>\n and the beginning of my strength,<\/p>\n the excellency of dignity,<\/p>\n and the excellency of power:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unstable as water,<\/p>\n thou shalt not excel;<\/p>\n because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed;<\/p>\n then defiledst thou it:<\/p>\n he went up to my couch.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SIMEON<\/strong><\/p>\n AND<\/strong><\/p>\n LEVI<\/strong><\/p>\n are brethren;<\/p>\n instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n O my soul,<\/p>\n come not thou into their secret;<\/p>\n unto their assembly,<\/p>\n mine honour,<\/p>\n be not thou united:<\/p>\n for in their anger they slew a man,<\/p>\n and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cursed be their anger,<\/p>\n for it was fierce;<\/p>\n and their wrath,<\/p>\n for it was cruel:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I will divide them in Jacob,<\/p>\n and scatter them in Israel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JUDAH<\/strong>,<\/p>\n thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:<\/p>\n thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies;<\/p>\n thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Judah is a lion’s whelp:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n from the prey,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n my son,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n thou art gone up:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n he stooped down,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n he couched as a lion,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n and as an old lion;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n who shall rouse him up?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n nor a lawgiver from between his feet,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n until Shiloh come;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Binding his foal unto the vine,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n he washed his garments in wine,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n and his clothes in the blood of grapes:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n His eyes shall be red with wine,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n and his teeth white with milk.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ZEBULUN<\/strong><\/p>\n shall dwell at the haven of the sea;<\/p>\n and he shall be for an haven of ships;<\/p>\n and his border shall be unto Zidon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ISSACHAR<\/strong><\/p>\n is a strong ass<\/p>\n couching down between two burdens:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And he saw that rest was good,<\/p>\n and the land that it was pleasant;<\/p>\n and bowed his shoulder to bear,<\/p>\n and became a servant unto tribute.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n DAN<\/strong><\/p>\n shall judge his people,<\/p>\n as one of the tribes of Israel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dan shall be a serpent by the way,<\/p>\n an adder in the path,<\/p>\n that biteth the horse heels,<\/p>\n so that his rider shall fall backward.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have waited for thy salvation,<\/p>\n O LORD.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n GAD<\/strong>,<\/p>\n a troop shall overcome him:<\/p>\n but he shall overcome at the last.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Out of ASHER<\/strong><\/p>\n his bread shall be fat,<\/p>\n and he shall yield royal dainties.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n NAPHTALI<\/strong><\/p>\n is a hind let loose:<\/p>\n he giveth goodly words.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JOSEPH<\/strong><\/p>\n is a fruitful bough,<\/p>\n even a fruitful bough by a well;<\/p>\n whose branches run over the wall:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The archers have sorely grieved him,<\/p>\n and shot at him,<\/p>\n and hated him:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But his bow abode in strength,<\/p>\n and the arms of his hands were made strong<\/p>\n by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob;<\/p>\n from thence is the shepherd,<\/p>\n the stone of Israel:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Even by the God of thy father,<\/p>\n who shall help thee;<\/p>\n and by the Almighty,<\/p>\n who shall bless thee<\/p>\n with blessings of heaven above,<\/p>\n blessings of the deep<\/p>\n that lieth under,<\/p>\n blessings of the breasts,<\/p>\n and of the womb:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The blessings of thy father have prevailed<\/p>\n above the blessings of my progenitors<\/p>\n unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n they shall be on the head of Joseph,<\/p>\n and on the crown of the head of him<\/p>\n that was separate from his brethren.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n BENJAMIN<\/strong><\/p>\n shall ravin<\/p>\n as a wolf:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n in the morning he shall devour the prey,<\/p>\n and at night he shall divide the spoil.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ALL THESE<\/strong><\/p>\n ARE THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL<\/strong>:<\/p>\n and this is it that their father spake unto them,<\/p>\n and blessed them;<\/p>\n every one<\/p>\n according to his blessing<\/p>\n he blessed them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And he charged them,<\/p>\n and said unto them,<\/p>\n I am to be gathered unto my people:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n bury me with my fathers in the cave<\/p>\n that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah,<\/p>\n which is before Mamre,<\/p>\n in the land of Canaan,<\/p>\n which Abraham bought<\/p>\n with the field of Ephron the Hittite<\/p>\n for a possession of a buryingplace.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There they buried Abraham<\/p>\n and Sarah his wife;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n there they buried Isaac<\/p>\n and Rebekah his wife;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and there I buried Leah.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The purchase of the field<\/p>\n and of the cave that is therein<\/p>\n was from the children of Heth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And when Jacob had made an end<\/p>\n of commanding his sons,<\/p>\n he gathered up his feet into the bed,<\/p>\n and yielded up the ghost,<\/p>\n and was gathered unto his people.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And Joseph fell upon his father’s face,<\/p>\n and wept upon him,<\/p>\n and kissed him.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n next<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n prev<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n audio<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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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