1Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. 2Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. 3"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; 4Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; 5"Simeon and Levi are brothers. 6My soul, do not come into their council. 7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; 8"Judah, your brothers will praise you. 9Judah is a lion's cub. 10The scepter will not depart from Judah, 11Binding his foal to the vine, 12His eyes will be red with wine, 13"Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. 14"Issachar is a strong donkey, 15He saw a resting place, that it was good, 16"Dan will judge his people, 17Dan will be a serpent in the way, 18I have waited for your salvation, JEHOVAH.ΒΆ 19"A troop will press on Gad, 20"Asher's food will be rich. 21"Naphtali is a doe set free, 22"Joseph is a fruitful vine, 23The archers have sorely grieved him, 24But his bow remained strong. 25even by the God of your father, who will help you; 26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, 27"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. 28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing. 29He instructed 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, 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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: 32the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth." 33When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.