1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3¶ Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.49.4 thou shalt…: Heb. do not thou excel49.4 he went…: or, my couch is gone
5¶ Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.49.5 instruments…: or, their swords are weapons of violence 6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.49.6 digged…: or, houghed oxen 7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8¶ Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee. 9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
14¶ Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 15And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
16¶ Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.49.17 an adder: Heb. an arrow-snake 18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
19¶ Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20¶ Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21¶ Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
22¶ Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:49.22 branches: Heb. daughters 23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 26The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
27¶ Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
28¶ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30In 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 for a possession of a buryingplace. 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 32The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. 33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Yakobo Adalitsa Ana ake Aamuna
1Pambuyo pake Yakobo anayitanitsa ana ake aamuna nati: Sonkhanani pamodzi kuti ndikuwuzeni zimene zidzakuchitikireni mʼmasiku a mʼtsogolo.
2“Bwerani ndipo imvani mawu anga, inu ana a Yakobo;
mverani abambo anu Israeli.
3“Rubeni, ndiwe woyamba kubadwa;
mphamvu yanga ndiponso chizindikiro choyamba cha mphamvu zanga,
wopambana pa ulemerero ndi mphamvu.
4Wokokoma ngati madzi a chigumula, koma sudzakhalanso wopambana,
iwe unagona pa bedi la abambo ako,
ndithu unayipitsa bedi la mdzakazi wake.
5“Simeoni ndi Levi ndi pachibale pawo,
anachitira nkhanza anthu amene anachita nawo pangano.
6Iwe moyo wanga, usakhale nawo pa misonkhano yawo ya mseri,
kapena kugwirizana nawo mʼmabwalo awo,
pakuti anapha anthu mu mkwiyo wawo
ndipo anapundula ngʼombe zamphongo monga kunawakomera.
7Matemberero awagwere chifukwa cha mkwiyo wawo woopsa chonchi
ndi ukali wawo wankhanza choterewu!
Ine ndidzawabalalitsa mʼdziko la Yakobo
ndi kuwamwaza iwo mʼdziko la Israeli.
8“Yuda, ndiwe amene abale ako adzatamanda;
dzanja lako lidzagwira pa khosi pa adani ako;
abale ako adzakugwadira iwe.
9Yuda ali ngati mwana wa mkango;
umabwerera ku malo ako ndi zofunkha, mwana wanga.
Monga mkango, amadziwongola ndi kugona pansi,
ndipo ngati mkango waukazi, ndani angalimbe mtima kumudzutsa?
10Ndodo yaufumu sidzachoka mwa Yuda,
udzawupanirira ulamuliro motero kuti palibe amene adzawuchotse,
mpaka mwini wake weniweni atabwera
ndipo mitundu yonse ya anthu idzamumvera.
11Ndiye amene amamangirira bulu wake wamkazi kumtengo wa mpesa,
ndi mwana wa bulu ku nthambi ya mpesa wabwino.
Ndi iye amene amachapa zovala zake mu vinyo;
ndi mkanjo wake mu vinyo wofiira ngati magazi.
12Maso ake adzakhala akuda chifukwa cha vinyo,
mano ake woyera chifukwa cha mkaka.
13“Zebuloni adzakhala mʼmphepete mwa nyanja;
adzakhala pa dooko la sitima zapamadzi;
malire ake adzafika ku Sidoni.
14“Isakara ali ngati bulu wamphamvu
wogona pansi pakati pa makola.
15Ataona ubwino wake wa pamalo pake popumira
ndi kukongola kwa dziko lake,
iye anaweramutsa msana kuti anyamule katundu wake
ndipo anasanduka wogwira ntchito ya ukapolo.
16“Dani adzaweruza mwachilungamo anthu ake
monga limodzi mwa mafuko a anthu a mu Israeli.
17Dani adzakhala ngati njoka ya mʼmphepete mwa msewu,
songo yokhala mʼnjira
imene imaluma chidendene cha kavalo
kuti wokwerapoyo agwe chagada.
18“Ndikuyembekeza chipulumutso chanu Yehova.
19“Gadi adzachitidwa chiwembu ndi gulu la amaliwongo,
koma iye adzawathamangitsa.
20“Dziko la Aseri lidzabereka chakudya chokoma,
ndipo iye adzapereka chakudya kwa mafumu.
21“Nafutali ali ngati mbawala yayikazi
yokhala ndi ana okongola kwambiri.
22“Yosefe ali ngati mtengo wobereka zipatso,
mtengo wobereka zipatso pafupi ndi kasupe,
nthambi zake zimayanga pa chipupa cha mwala.
23Alenje a uta anamuchita chiwembu mwankhanza;
anamuthamangitsa ndi mauta awo.
24Koma uta wake sunagwedezeke,
ndi manja ake amphamvu aja analimbika,
chifukwa cha mphamvu za Mulungu Wamphamvu wa Yakobo,
chifukwa ali Mʼbusa ndi Thanthwe la Israeli.
25Chifukwa cha Mulungu wa makolo ako amene amakuthandiza;
chifukwa cha Mulungu Wamphamvu, amene amakudalitsa
ndi mvula yochokera kumwamba,
ndi madzi otumphuka pansi pa nthaka,
ndipo amakudalitsa pokupatsa ana ambiri ndi ngʼombe zambiri.
26Madalitso a kholo lako ndi amphamvu kuposa
madalitso a mapiri akale
oposa zabwino za ku zitunda zamgonagona.
Zonse izi zikhale pamutu pa Yosefe,
pa mphumi pa wopatulika uja amene anapatulidwa pakati pa abale ake.
27“Benjamini ali ngati mʼmbulu wolusa;
umene mmawa umapha ndi kudya zofunkha,
ndipo madzulo umagawa zofunkhazo,”
28Onse awa ndi mafuko khumi ndi awiri a Israeli, ndipo zimenezi ndi zomwe abambo awo ananena pamene anawadalitsa, kuwapatsa aliyense madalitso ake womuyenera iye.
Kumwalira kwa Yakobo
29Kenaka Yakobo analamula ana ake nati: “Ine ndatsala pangʼono kufa. Tsono mukandiyike pamodzi ndi makolo anga mʼphanga la mʼmunda wa Efroni Mhiti. 30Ili ndi phanga la mʼmunda wa Makipela, pafupi ndi Mamre mʼdziko la Kanaani. Abrahamu anagula phangalo pamodzi ndi munda womwe kwa Efroni Mhiti kuti pakhale manda. 31Kumeneko kunayikidwa Abrahamu ndi mkazi wake Sara, Isake ndi mkazi wake Rebeka ndipo ndinayikakonso Leya. 32Munda ndi manda amene ali mʼmenemo zinagulidwa kwa Ahiti.”
33Yakobo atamaliza kupereka malangizo kwa ana ake, anabwezera miyendo yake pa bedi, namwalira ndipo anakakhala ndi anthu a mtundu wake.
