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 Asabira Batabani be Omukisa
149:1 Kbl 24:14; Yer 23:20Awo Yakobo n’ayita batabani be n’abagamba nti, Mukuŋŋaane, ndyoke mbategeeze ebiribabaako mu nnaku ezijja.
249:2 Zab 34:11Mukuŋŋaane muwulire, mwe abaana ba Yakobo,
muwulirize Isirayiri kitammwe.
349:3 a Lub 29:32 b Ma 21:17; Zab 78:51Lewubeeni ggwe mubereberye wange,
amaanyi gange, ebibala ebibereberye eby’amaanyi gange,
ekitiibwa n’obuyinza ebiyitirivu.
449:4 a Is 57:20 b Lub 35:22; Ma 27:20Naye tafugika, oli ng’amayengo g’ennyanja, naye tokyali wa kitiibwa,
kubanga walinnya ekitanda kya kitaawo,
mu nnyumba yange, n’okyonoona.
549:5 Lub 34:25; Nge 4:17Simyoni ne Leevi baaluganda,
ebitala byabwe byakulwanyisa bya maanyi.
649:6 a Nge 1:15; Bef 5:11 b Lub 34:26Ayi omwoyo gwange teweetaba mu kuteesa kwabwe.
Ayi omwoyo gwange teweegatta nabo.
Kubanga mu busungu bwabwe batta abantu,
olw’okwekulumbaza kwabwe baatema ente olunywa.
749:7 Yos 19:1, 9; 21:1-42Obusungu bwabwe bukolimirwe, kubanga bungi;
n’obukambwe bwabwe, kubanga bwa ttima.
Ndibaawula mu Yakobo,
ndibasaasaanya mu Isirayiri.
849:8 Ma 33:7; 1By 5:2Yuda gwe baganda bo banaakutenderezanga.
Omukono gwo gunaatulugunyanga abalabe bo.
Abaana ba kitaawo banaakuvuunamiranga.
949:9 a Kbl 24:9; Ez 19:5; Mi 5:8 b Kub 5:5Yuda, mwana w’empologoma.
Oyambuse mwana wange, ng’ovudde ku muyiggo.
Yakutama, yabwama ng’empologoma.
Ddala ng’empologoma enkazi, ani anaakweŋŋanga?
1049:10 a Kbl 24:17, 19; Zab 60:7 b Zab 2:9; Is 42:1, 4Era omuggo gw’omufuzi teguuvenga wakati wa bigere bya Yuda,
okutuusa Siiro lw’alijja;
era oyo amawanga gonna
gwe ganaawuliranga.
11Alisiba endogoyi ku muzabbibu,
n’omwana gw’endogoyi ku muzabbibu ogusinga obulungi,
ayoza ebyambalo bye mu nvinnyo,
n’engoye ze mu musaayi gwe zabbibu.
12Amaaso ge galimyuka wayini,
n’amannyo ge galitukula okusinga amata.
1349:13 Lub 30:20; Ma 33:18-19; Yos 19:10-11Zebbulooni alibeera ku mabbali ga nnyanja;
anaabanga mwalo gw’amaato,
ensalo ze ziriba ku Sidoni.
1449:14 Lub 30:18Isakaali ndogoyi ya maanyi,
ng’akutama wakati mu bisibo by’endiga;
15yalaba ng’ekifo ky’okuwummuliramu kirungi;
nga n’ensi esanyusa;
n’alyoka akkakkanya ekibegabega kye okusitula,
n’afuuka omuddu ow’okukozesebwanga emirimu egy’obuwaze.
1649:16 Lub 30:6; Ma 33:22; Bal 18:26-27Ddaani anaalamulanga mu bwenkanya abantu be
ng’ekika ekimu ku bika bya Isirayiri.
1749:17 Bal 18:27Ddaani anaaba musota mu kkubo,
essalambwa ku kkubo,
eriruma ebisinziiro by’embalaasi,
omwebagazi waayo alyoke agwe emabega waayo.
1849:18 Zab 119:166, 174Nnindirira obulokozi bwo, Ayi Mukama.
1949:19 Lub 30:11; Ma 33:20; 1By 5:18Gaadi alirumbibwa ogubiina gw’abanyazi,
naye ye, alibafubutukira emabega.
2049:20 Lub 30:13; Ma 33:24Aseri emmere ye eneebanga ngimu,
era anaagemuliranga kabaka ebyokulya.
2149:21 Lub 30:8; Ma 33:23Nafutaali mpeewo ya ddembe,
avaamu ebigambo ebirungi.
2249:22 Lub 30:24; Ma 33:13-17Yusufu lye ttabi eribala ennyo,
ettabi eribala ennyo eriri ku mugga;
abaana be babuna bbugwe.
2349:23 Lub 37:24Abalasa obusaale baamulumba bubi nnyo,
baamulasa ne bamulumya nnyo;
2449:24 a Zab 18:34 b Zab 132:2, 5; Is 1:24; 41:10 c Is 28:16naye omutego gwe ne gunywera,
n’emikono gye ne gitasagaasagana.
Olw’omukono gwa Ayinzabyonna owa Yakobo,
olw’Omusumba, Olwazi lwa Isirayiri,
2549:25 a Lub 28:13 b Lub 27:28olwa Katonda wa kitaawo, akuyamba,
olwa Ayinzabyonna akuwa omukisa,
omukisa oguva waggulu mu ggulu,
omukisa ogwa wansi mu buziba,
omukisa ogw’omu lubuto ne mu mabeere.
2649:26 Ma 33:15-16Omukisa gwa kitaawo
gusinga omukisa gwa bajjajjange,
gusinga egyo egyaweebwa bajjajja ab’edda.
Gino gyonna gibeere ku mutwe gwa Yusufu,
gibeere ne ku bukowekowe bw’oyo eyayawukanyizibwa ne baganda be.
2749:27 Lub 35:18; Bal 20:12-13Benyamini musege ogunyaga,
mu makya alya omuyiggo,
mu kawungeezi n’agaba omunyago.
28Ebyo byonna by’ebika ekkumi n’ebiriri ebya Isirayiri, era ebyo kitaabwe bye yayogera nabo ng’abasabira omukisa. Buli omu ng’amusabira omukisa ogumusaanira.
Okufa kwa Yakobo
2949:29 a Lub 50:16 b Lub 25:8 c Lub 15:15; 47:30; 50:13Oluvannyuma n’abakuutira n’abagamba nti, “Nditwalibwa eri abantu bange gye baatwalibwa. Munziikanga wamu ne bajjajjange, mu mpuku eri mu nnimiro ya Efulooni Omukiiti, 3049:30 a Lub 23:9 b Lub 23:20mu mpuku eri mu nnimiro ya Makupeera, okumpi ne Mamule, mu nsi ya Kanani, Ibulayimu gye yagulira mu nnimiro, okuva ku Efulooni Omukiiti. Yagigula okuba obutaka bw’okuziikangamu. 3149:31 a Lub 25:9 b Lub 23:19 c Lub 35:29Awo we waaziikibwa Ibulayimu ne Saala mukazi we, era ne Isaaka ne Lebbeeka mukazi we, we baaziikwa, era awo we naziika Leeya. 32Ennimiro n’empuku erimu byagulibwa okuva ku baana ba Kesi.”
3349:33 nny 29; Lub 25:8; Bik 7:15Yakobo bwe yamala okukuutira batabani be, n’azaayo ebigere bye mu kitanda, n’assa omukka ogw’enkomerero n’afa n’akuŋŋaanyizibwa eri abantu be.
