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¹ And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days: ² And listen to Israel your father. ³ The excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. ⁴ He went up to my couch. ⁵ Instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place. ⁶ And in their self-will they hamstrung an ox. ⁷ And scatter them in Israel. ⁸ Your father’s children shall bow down before you. ⁹ And as a lion, who shall rouse him? ¹⁰ And to Him shall be the obedience of the people. ¹¹ And his clothes in the blood of grapes. ¹² And his teeth whiter than milk. ¹³ And his border shall adjoin Sidon. ¹⁴ Lying down between two burdens; ¹⁵ And became a band of slaves. ¹⁶ As one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ So that its rider shall fall backward. ¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, O Lord! ¹⁹ But he shall triumph at last. ²⁰ And he shall yield royal dainties. ²¹ He uses beautiful words. ²² His branches run over the wall. ²³ Shot at him and hated him. ²⁴ (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel), ²⁵ Blessings of the breasts and of the womb. ²⁶ And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. ²⁷ And at night he shall divide the spoil.” ²⁸ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them; he blessed each one according to his own blessing. ²⁹ Then he charged 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, ³⁰ 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 of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place. ³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah. ³² The field and the cave that is there were purchased from the sons of Heth.” ³³ And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.