Gen 49:19 ¶ "As for Gad, raiders shall raid him, But he will raid at their heels.
Gen 49:20 ¶ "As for Asher, his food shall be rich, And he will yield royal dainties.
Gen 49:21 ¶ "Naphtali is a doe let loose, He gives beautiful words.
Gen 49:22 ¶ "Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a spring; Its branches run over a wall.
Gen 49:24 But his bow remained firm, And his arms were agile, From the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
Gen 49:25 From the God of your father who helps you, And by the Almighty who blesses you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Gen 49:26 "The blessings of your father Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; May they be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.
Gen 49:27 ¶ "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he devours the prey, And in the evening he divides the spoil."
Gen 49:28 ¶ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him.
Gen 49:29 Then he charged them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Gen 49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site.
Gen 49:31 "There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah--
Gen 49:33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
Gen 50:1 Then Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept over him and kissed him.
Gen 50:2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Gen 50:3 Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Gen 50:4 ¶ When the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,
Gen 50:5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.'"
Gen 50:6 Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear."
Gen 50:7 ¶ So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,