창 49:1 |
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And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. |
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창 49:2 |
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Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. |
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창 49:3 |
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¶ Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: |
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창 49:4 |
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Unstable 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. |
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창 49:5 |
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¶ Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. |
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창 49:7 |
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Cursed 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. |
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창 49:8 |
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¶ 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. |
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창 49:9 |
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Judah 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? |
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창 49:10 |
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The 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. |
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창 49:11 |
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Binding 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: |
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