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Genesis 48:1-22
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Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, Behold, your father is sick; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
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And Jacob was told, they said, Behold, your son Joseph is coming to you. And Israel strengthened himself and sat up on the bed.
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And Jacob said to Joseph: God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
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and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your seed after you as an enduring possession.
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And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
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Your offspring whom you beget after them shall be yours; they shall be called according to the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
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But as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (which is Bethlehem).
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And Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
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And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place. And he said, Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.
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Now the eyes of Israel had become dull with age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
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And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face; but lo, God has also shown me your seed.
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And Joseph brought them from beside his knees, and he prostrated with his face to the earth.
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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them to him.
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And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, crossing his hands; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
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And he blessed Joseph, and said: God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born to this day,
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the Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; let my name be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
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Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it caused his eye to quiver; so he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head onto Manasseh's head.
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And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.
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But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
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And he blessed them that day, saying, In you Israel shall bless, saying, May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh! And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
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Then Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
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Moreover I have extended your shoulder above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.
Genesis 49:2-33
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Gather around and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.
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Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.
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Like bubbling water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.
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Simeon and Levi are brothers; implements of violence are their weapons.
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Let not my soul enter their council; let not my honor be united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they have hamstrung an ox.
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Cursed is their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
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Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you.
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Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he crouches like a lion; and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?
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The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the cleansing of the peoples.
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Binding His donkey to the vine, and His donkey's colt to the choice vine, He has washed His garments in wine, and His clothes in the blood of grapes;
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His eyes flashing with wine, and His teeth white with milk.
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Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore; he shall become a haven for ships, bordering Sidon.
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Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between two burdens.
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He saw that the resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant. He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a servant to forced labor.
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Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider shall fall backward.
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I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah.
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Gad, a troop shall attack him, but he shall attack their heel.
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Bread from Asher shall be rich, and he shall produce kings' delicacies.
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Naphtali is a deer let loose; he utters beautiful words.
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Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches have run over the wall.
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The archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and carried animosity against him.
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But his bow remained steadfast, and the arms of his hands were made nimble by the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob; from the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel,
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by the Mighty God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
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The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounds of the enduring hills. They shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
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Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall distribute the spoils.
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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.
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And 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,
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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.
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.
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The field and the cave that is there were purchased from the sons of Heth.
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And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and expired, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 50:15-17
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And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Perhaps Joseph will hold a grudge against us, and return and repay us for all the evil which we did unto him.
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So they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Before your father died he commanded, saying,
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Thus you shall say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you. Now, please, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Job 1:4
And his sons went and prepared feasts in their houses, each on his appointed day, and sent and invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Job 1:5
So it was, when the days of feasting had made the rounds, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus Job did over time.
Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to pursue strong drink; remaining until the evening while wine inflames them!
Isaiah 5:12
And the lute, and the harp, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Jehovah, neither do they give attention to the work of His hands.
Isaiah 22:12-14
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And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called for weeping and mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
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But behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!
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And it was revealed in my ears by Jehovah of Hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be atoned until you die, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
Amos 6:3-6
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You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
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who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves on their couches; and those eating the lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;
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who chant with the sound of the lute; they invent instruments of song for themselves like David;
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who drink wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of ointments; but they are not grieved for the crushing of Joseph!
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 14:6-12
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But when Herod's birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod.
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Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.
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So she, having been instructed by her mother, said, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Immerser.
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And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.
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So he sent and had John beheaded in prison.
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And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.
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And his disciples came and took away the body and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
1 Peter 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.
1 Peter 4:4
In this regard, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same overflow of dissipation, blaspheming.
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Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number one-fourth of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!
Deuteronomy 32:29
Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Romans 6:21
What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 6:22
But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and who glory in their shame; who set their mind on earthly things.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this the judgment,
living
Deuteronomy 32:46
and He said to them: Set your hearts on all the words which I am testifying against you today, that you command your children to take heed to do all the Words of this Law.
Isaiah 47:7
And you said, I shall be a queen forever; so you did not lay these things to heart, nor remember the latter end of it.
Haggai 1:5
And now, thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed it, because you are not laying it to heart.