Genesis 49 (NET)

Genesis 49:1¹Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in future days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:20Num 24:14Dan 10:14Deut 4:30Amos 3:7Deut 31:12Deut 33:1-29Heb 1:2Heb 10:24-25Isa 2:2

Genesis 49:2²“Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your father.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 34:11Prov 1:8-9Prov 23:22Prov 23:26Prov 4:1-4Prov 5:1Prov 6:20Prov 7:1Prov 7:24Prov 8:32

Genesis 49:3³Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 21:17Ps 78:51Gen 29:32Ps 105:361 Chr 2:11 Chr 5:11 Chr 5:3Gen 48:18Num 1:20Gen 46:8

Genesis 49:4⁴You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it—he got on my couch!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 35:221 Chr 5:1Deut 27:20Deut 33:61 Cor 5:1Jas 1:6-8Deut 5:21Gen 46:82 Pet 3:162 Pet 2:14

Genesis 49:5⁵Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their knives!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 34:25-31Gen 29:33-34Gen 46:10-11Prov 18:9

Genesis 49:6⁶O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 34:30Ps 26:9Ps 16:92 Cor 6:14Gen 34:25-26Jer 15:17Jer 4:19Luke 12:19Prov 1:15-16Ps 26:4-5

Genesis 49:7⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 4:24-311 Chr 6:65Josh 19:1-91 Chr 4:39-402 Sam 13:152 Sam 13:22-28Josh 21:1-45Prov 26:24-25Prov 27:3

Genesis 49:8⁸Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:2Gen 27:29Heb 7:14Deut 33:7Gen 29:35Josh 10:24Ps 18:40-431 Chr 12:1-401 Kgs 4:1-342 Chr 11:12-17

Genesis 49:9⁹You are a lion’s cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness—who will rouse him?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 24:9Num 23:24Rev 5:5Mic 5:8Hos 5:14Ezek 19:51 Cor 15:24Hos 5:4

Genesis 49:10¹⁰The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 24:17Luke 1:32-33Isa 9:6Ps 60:7Isa 33:22Jer 23:5-6Isa 42:1Heb 7:14Isa 11:1-5Jer 30:21

Genesis 49:11¹¹Binding his foal to the vine, and his colt to the choicest vine, he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 63:1-3Joel 3:18Rev 7:141 Kgs 4:201 Kgs 4:25Mic 4:4Rev 19:182 Kgs 18:32

Genesis 49:12¹²His eyes will be red from wine, and his teeth white from milk.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 49:13¹³Zebulun will live by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:18-19Gen 30:20Josh 19:10-16

Genesis 49:14¹⁴Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 12:32Gen 30:18Deut 33:18Josh 19:17-23Judg 10:1Judg 5:15-16

Genesis 49:15¹⁵When he sees a good resting place, and the pleasant land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and become a slave laborer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 7:1Ezek 29:18Josh 14:15Judg 3:11Matt 23:4Ps 81:6

Genesis 49:16¹⁶Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:22Gen 30:6Judg 13:2Judg 13:24-25Judg 15:20Judg 18:1-2Judg 18:26-27Num 10:25

Genesis 49:17¹⁷May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 12:35Judg 18:22-31Judg 14:1-15

Genesis 49:18¹⁸I wait for your deliverance, O Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 25:9Ps 119:166Ps 119:174Mic 7:7Ps 130:51 Thess 1:10Lam 3:25Luke 2:25Ps 25:5-6Ps 40:1

Genesis 49:19¹⁹Gad will be raided by marauding bands, but he will attack them at their heels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:11-22Deut 33:20-21Gen 30:111 Chr 3:18-221 Chr 5:26Gen 46:16Josh 13:8Judg 10:1-11Num 32:1-42

Genesis 49:20²⁰Asher’s food will be rich, and he will provide delicacies to royalty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:24-25Gen 30:13Gen 46:17Josh 19:24-31

Genesis 49:21²¹Naphtali is a free running doe, he speaks delightful words.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:23Gen 30:8Gen 46:24Josh 19:32-39Judg 4:10Judg 4:6Judg 5:18Matt 4:15-16Ps 18:33-34

Genesis 49:22²²Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 41:52Ps 1:1-3Ps 128:3Gen 30:22-24Gen 46:27Josh 16:1-10Josh 17:14-17Deut 33:13-17Ezek 19:11Gen 48:1

Genesis 49:23²³The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 37:24Ps 118:13Gen 37:28Gen 37:4Ps 64:3Acts 14:22Gen 37:18Gen 39:7-20Gen 42:21John 16:33

Genesis 49:24²⁴But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful; because of the hands of the Powerful One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 132:2Isa 28:16Ps 132:5Job 29:20Ps 80:12 Tim 4:17Ps 18:301 Pet 2:4-8Deut 32:4Eph 2:20

Genesis 49:25²⁵because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the Sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:13Gen 35:11Phil 4:19Deut 33:13-17Deut 8:17Gen 43:231 Tim 4:8Deut 28:2-12Deut 33:1Gen 27:28

Genesis 49:26²⁶The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:15-16Hab 3:6Ezek 37:25-26Gen 27:27-29Gen 27:39-40Gen 28:3-4Gen 37:28Isa 54:10Isa 66:5Jonah 2:6

Genesis 49:27²⁷Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning devouring the prey, and in the evening dividing the plunder.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 20:21Judg 20:25Ezek 22:27Gen 35:18Gen 46:21Num 23:241 Sam 11:4-111 Sam 14:1-151 Sam 17:1-58Acts 20:29

Genesis 49:28²⁸These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Esth 8:11Ezek 39:8-10Rev 7:41 Kgs 18:31Acts 26:7Esth 8:7Esth 8:9Esth 9:1-10Gen 35:22Num 23:24

Genesis 49:29²⁹Then he instructed them, “I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 47:30Gen 50:13Gen 15:152 Sam 19:37Gen 25:8-17Gen 35:29Rom 12:6-21Heb 12:23

Genesis 49:30³⁰It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 23:16-18Gen 23:20Gen 23:8-9

Genesis 49:31³¹There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:9Gen 35:29Acts 7:16Gen 23:16-20Gen 23:3Gen 47:30Gen 50:13

Genesis 49:32³²The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 23:17-20

Genesis 49:33³³When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 49:29Gen 25:8Gen 35:29Acts 7:15Eccl 12:7Gen 15:5Gen 25:17Gen 49:1Gen 49:24-26Heb 11:13-16