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Book of Genesis, Chapter 49

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Chapter 49 of Genesis—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Later on Jacob called his sons and said: “Gather yourselves together that I may tell YOU what will happen to YOU in the final part of the days.
  2. Assemble yourselves and listen, YOU sons of Jacob, yes, listen to Israel YOUR father.1
  3. ¶ “Reuʹben, you are my firstborn,2 my vigor and the beginning of my generative power,3 the excellence of dignity and the excellence of strength.
  4. With reckless license like waters,[a] do not you excel,4 because you have gone up to your father’s bed.5 At that time you profaned my lounge.6 He went up to it!
  5. ¶ “Simʹe·on and Leʹvi are brothers.[b]7 Instruments of violence are their slaughter weapons.[c]8
  6. Into their intimate group do not come,9 O my soul. With their congregation do not become united,10 O my disposition,[d] because in their anger they killed men,[e]11 and in their arbitrariness they hamstrung bulls.
  7. Cursed be their anger,12 because it is cruel,13 and their fury, because it acts harshly.14 Let me parcel them out in Jacob and let me scatter them in Israel.15
  8. ¶ “As for you, Judah,16 your brothers will laud you.17 Your hand will be on the back of the neck of your enemies.18 The sons of your father will prostrate themselves to you.19
  9. A lion cub Judah is.20 From the prey, my son, you will certainly go up. He bowed down, he stretched himself out like a lion[f] and, like a lion,[g] who dares rouse him?21
  10. The scepter[h] will not turn aside from Judah,22 neither the commander’s staff[i] from between his feet,[j] until Shiʹloh[k] comes;23 and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong.[l]24
  11. Tying his full-grown ass to a vine and the descendant of his own she-ass to a choice vine,[m] he will certainly wash his clothing in wine and his garment in the blood of grapes.25
  12. Dark red are his eyes from wine, and the whiteness of his teeth is from milk.
  13. ¶ “Zebʹu·lun will reside by the seashore,26 and he will be by the shore where the ships lie anchored;[n]27 and his remote side will be toward Siʹdon.28
  14. ¶ “Isʹsa·char29 is a strong-boned ass, lying down between the two saddlebags.
  15. And he will see that the resting-place is good and that the land is pleasant; and he will bend down his shoulder to bear burdens and he will become subject to slavish forced labor.[o]
  16. ¶ “Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.30
  17. Let Dan prove to be a serpent by the roadside, a horned snake at the wayside, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.31
  18. I shall indeed wait[p] for salvation from you,[q] O Jehovah.32
  19. ¶ “As for Gad, a marauder band will raid him, but he will raid the extreme rear.33
  20. ¶ “Out of Ashʹer his bread will be fat,34 and he will give the dainties of a king.35
  21. ¶ “Naphʹta·li36 is a slender[r] hind. He is giving words of elegance.[s]37
  22. ¶ “Offshoot[t] of a fruit-bearing tree,38 Joseph is the offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by the fountain,39 that propels its branches[u] up over a wall.40
  23. But the archers kept harassing him and shot at him and kept harboring animosity against him.41
  24. And yet his bow was dwelling in a permanent place,42 and the strength[v] of his hands was supple.[w]43 From the hands of the powerful one of Jacob,44 from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel.45
  25. He is from the God[x] of your father,46 and he will help you;47 and he is with the Almighty,48 and he will bless you with the blessings of the heavens above,49 with the blessings of the watery deep[y] lying down below,50 with the blessings of the breasts and womb.51
  26. The blessings of your father will indeed be superior to the blessings of the eternal mountains,52 to the ornament[z] of the indefinitely lasting hills.53 They will continue upon the head of Joseph, even upon the crown of the head of the one singled out[aa] from his brothers.54
  27. ¶ “Benjamin will keep on tearing like a wolf.55 In the morning he will eat the animal seized and at evening he will divide spoil.”56
  28. ¶ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he was blessing them. He blessed them each one according to his own blessing.57
  29. ¶ After that he commanded them and said to them: “I am being gathered to my people.58 Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Eʹphron the Hitʹtite,59
  30. in the cave that is in the field of Mach·peʹlah that is in front of Mamʹre in the land of Caʹnaan, the field that Abraham purchased from Eʹphron the Hitʹtite for the possession of a burial place.60
  31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife.61 There they buried Isaac and Re·bekʹah his wife,62 and there I buried Leʹah.
  32. The field purchased[ab] and the cave that is in it were from the sons of Heth.”63
  33. ¶ Thus Jacob finished giving commands to his sons. Then he gathered his feet up onto the couch and expired and was gathered to his people.64

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “There was reckless license like impetuous waters.”
  2. ^ “Eagle owls; hye­nas,” according to another vowel pointing.
  3. ^ “Slaughter weapons.” Some view the Heb. word here as yet unexplainable. Vs 5 in LXX, “Simeon and Levi, brothers, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.”
  4. ^ “My glory,” MVg; LXX, “my liver.” See VT, Vol. II, 1952, pp. 358-362.
  5. ^ Or, “a man.” Heb., ʼish, possibly in the collective sense.
  6. ^ “Like a lion.” Heb., keʼar·yehʹ, the African lion.
  7. ^ “And, like a lion.” Heb., u·khela·viʼʹ, the Asian lion.
  8. ^ “Scepter.” Heb., sheʹvet; Lat., scepʹtrum; Gr., arʹkhon, “ruler.”
  9. ^ Or, “neither a commander.” Heb., loʼ . . . u·mecho·qeqʹ.
  10. ^ Or, “from before him.” Compare Jg 5:27.
  11. ^ “Shiloh.” Or, “the one whose it is.” Heb., Shi·lohʹ, meaning “He Whose It Is,” or, “He to Whom It Belongs”; LXX, “the things stored up for him”; Vg, “he who is to be sent.”
  12. ^ “And he will be the expectation of nations,” LXXVg.
  13. ^ Or, “a vine with bright-red grapes.”
  14. ^ Or, “the ships disembark.”
  15. ^ Or, “become a slave under forced labor.”
  16. ^ Or, “I have waited.”
  17. ^ “For salvation from you.” Heb., li·shu·ʽoth·khaʹ; the first occurrence of this noun. The Heb. word yeshu·ʽahʹ, “salvation,” has the same root as the Bible names Jeshua, Joshua and Jesus.
  18. ^ Or, “nimble.”
  19. ^ Or, “He is putting forth branched ant­lers.”
  20. ^ Lit., “Son.”
  21. ^ Lit., “daughters.”
  22. ^ Lit., “the arms.”
  23. ^ Or, “agile.”
  24. ^ “From the God of.” Heb., me·ʼElʹ.
  25. ^ Or, “surging waters.” Vg, “abyss,” as in 1:2.
  26. ^ Or, “desire; abode.”
  27. ^ “One singled out.” Heb., nezirʹ; in Nu 6:2, 13, 18-20 translated “Nazirite,” meaning “One Singled Out; Dedicated One; Separated One.”
  28. ^ Lit., “The purchase of the field.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ge 49:28
  2. ^ Ge 29:32; Ex 6:14; 1Ch 5:1
  3. ^ De 21:17; Ps 78:51
  4. ^ De 33:6
  5. ^ Ge 35:22
  6. ^ Le 18:8; De 27:20; 1Co 5:1
  7. ^ Ge 29:33, 34; 35:23
  8. ^ Ge 34:25
  9. ^ Ps 64:2
  10. ^ Ps 26:5
  11. ^ Ge 34:7; Ro 12:19
  12. ^ Pr 22:24; Eph 4:31
  13. ^ Pr 11:17
  14. ^ Ge 34:25
  15. ^ Jos 19:1; 21:41
  16. ^ Ge 29:35
  17. ^ Ge 43:9; 46:28; 1Ch 5:2
  18. ^ Jos 10:24; Jg 1:2; 2Sa 22:41
  19. ^ Nu 10:14; De 33:7; 2Sa 5:3
  20. ^ Ho 5:14; Re 5:5
  21. ^ Nu 24:9
  22. ^ Nu 24:17; 2Sa 2:4; 7:16
  23. ^ Is 9:6; Eze 21:27; Lu 1:32; Heb 7:14
  24. ^ De 18:18; Ps 2:8; Is 11:10; Mt 2:6; Jn 10:16; Re 7:9
  25. ^ Is 63:2
  26. ^ De 33:19; Is 9:1
  27. ^ Mt 4:13
  28. ^ Jos 19:10
  29. ^ De 33:18; Jos 19:17; 1Ch 7:5
  30. ^ Jg 13:2, 24; 15:20
  31. ^ De 33:22; Jg 14:19; 15:15
  32. ^ Ps 14:7
  33. ^ De 33:20; Jos 13:8
  34. ^ De 32:14; Ps 81:16
  35. ^ De 33:24; Jos 19:24; 1Ki 4:7, 16
  36. ^ De 33:23; Jos 19:32; Mt 4:15
  37. ^ Mt 4:13; Jn 7:46
  38. ^ Ex 1:5
  39. ^ De 33:13; Jos 16:1
  40. ^ De 33:17
  41. ^ Ge 37:8; 40:15
  42. ^ Ge 50:20
  43. ^ Nu 13:8; Jos 1:6; 8:18; Jg 6:14; 11:32
  44. ^ Ps 80:1
  45. ^ Ge 45:7; 50:20; Is 28:16; Mt 21:42; 1Pe 2:4
  46. ^ Jn 17:3
  47. ^ Pp 4:19
  48. ^ Heb 10:12
  49. ^ Ml 3:10
  50. ^ De 33:13; Is 11:9
  51. ^ Is 59:21
  52. ^ Jos 17:14
  53. ^ Is 54:10
  54. ^ De 33:16; Ac 7:9
  55. ^ De 33:12; Jg 20:16; 1Sa 9:16
  56. ^ Es 2:5; 8:7
  57. ^ Heb 11:21
  58. ^ Ge 35:29; 49:33
  59. ^ Ge 23:17
  60. ^ Ge 23:20
  61. ^ Ge 23:19; 25:10
  62. ^ Ge 35:29
  63. ^ Ge 23:18
  64. ^ Ge 25:8; Ps 116:15; Mt 22:32; Ac 7:15

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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