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Genesis

Chapter 49

Jacob Blesses His Sons

1Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:


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28These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

The Death of Jacob


29Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

30The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

31There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.

32The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”


33When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.

Footnotes

  1. 216.Or dwelling places
  2. 217.Judah sounds like the Hebrew for praise.
  3. 218.Or from his descendants
  4. 219.Or until the one to whom tribute belongs
  5. 220.Or saddlebags or hearths
  6. 221.Or Dan shall judge his people; Dan means He has judged or He has vindicated.
  7. 222.Gad sounds like the Hebrew for raid and also for band of raiders.
  8. 223.Or gives beautiful words or bears fawns of the fold
  9. 224.Or Joseph is a wild donkey, a wild donkey by a spring, with his wild colts beside the wall
  10. 225.Hebrew Shaddai
  11. 226.Or of my ancestors