Genesis 49

Jacob 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.

Listen to Israel, your father.

excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

Their swords are weapons of violence.

In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

and scatter them in Israel.

Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

Who will rouse him up?

To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

his robes in the blood of grapes.

his teeth white with milk.

His border will be on Sidon.

lying down between the saddlebags.

and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

as one of the tribes of Israel.

so that his rider falls backward.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

but he will press on their heel.

He will produce royal dainties.

who bears beautiful fawns.

His branches run over the wall.

shot at him, and persecuted him:

(from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

At evening he will divide the plunder.”

All 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 own blessing.

He 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,

in 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.

There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.