Gen 48:20 He blessed them that day, saying, "By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying, 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!'" Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Gen 48:21 Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
Gen 48:22 "I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow."
Gen 49:1 Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, "Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.
Gen 49:2 "Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob; And listen to Israel your father.
Gen 49:3 ¶ "Reuben, you are my firstborn; My might and the beginning of my strength, Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
Gen 49:4 "Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence, Because you went up to your father's bed; Then you defiled it --he went up to my couch.
Gen 49:5 ¶ "Simeon and Levi are brothers; Their swords are implements of violence.
Gen 49:6 "Let my soul not enter into their council; Let not my glory be united with their assembly; Because in their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they lamed oxen.
Gen 49:7 "Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel. I will disperse them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.
Gen 49:9 "Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him up?
Gen 49:10 "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Gen 49:11 "He ties his foal to the vine, And his donkey's colt to the choice vine; He washes his garments in wine, And his robes in the blood of grapes.
Gen 49:12 "His eyes are dull from wine, And his teeth white from milk.
Gen 49:13 ¶ "Zebulun will dwell at the seashore; And he shall be a haven for ships, And his flank shall be toward Sidon.
Gen 49:14 ¶ "Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between the sheepfolds.
Gen 49:15 "When he saw that a resting place was good And that the land was pleasant, He bowed his shoulder to bear burdens, And became a slave at forced labor.
Gen 49:16 ¶ "Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.
Gen 49:17 "Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snake in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.