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Text -- Genesis 49:18-33 (NET)
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49:18 I wait for your deliverance , O Lord .
49:19 Gad will be raided by marauding bands , but he will attack them at their heels .
49:20 Asher’s food will be rich , and he will provide delicacies to royalty .
49:21 Naphtali is a free running doe , he speaks delightful words .
49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough , a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall .
49:23 The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him.
49:24 But his bow will remain steady , and his hands will be skillful ; because of the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob , because of the Shepherd , the Rock of Israel ,
49:25 because of the God of your father , who will help you, because of the sovereign God , who will bless you with blessings from the sky above , blessings from the deep that lies below , and blessings of the breasts and womb .
49:26 The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills . They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers .
49:27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf ; in the morning devouring the prey , and in the evening dividing the plunder .”
49:28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel . This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing .
49:29 Then he instructed them, “I am about to go to my people . Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite .
49:30 It is the cave in the field of Machpelah , near Mamre in the land of Canaan , which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite .
49:31 There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah ; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah ; and there I buried Leah .
49:32 The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth .”
49:33 When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons , he pulled his feet up onto the bed , breathed his last breath , and went to his people .
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Death |
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CAIN |
APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE, 2 |
GENESIS, 4 |
Israel |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Intercession |
GENEALOGY, 8 part 1 |
JACOB (1) |
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NET Notes -> Gen 49:18; Gen 49:19; Gen 49:19; Gen 49:20; Gen 49:20; Gen 49:20; Gen 49:21; Gen 49:21; Gen 49:21; Gen 49:22; Gen 49:22; Gen 49:23; Gen 49:24; Gen 49:24; Gen 49:24; Gen 49:25; Gen 49:25; Gen 49:25; Gen 49:25; Gen 49:26; Gen 49:26; Gen 49:26; Gen 49:28; Gen 49:28; Gen 49:29; Gen 49:29; Gen 49:32; Gen 49:33
NET Notes: Gen 49:18 I wait for your deliverance, O Lord. As Jacob sees the conflicts that lie ahead for Dan and Gad (see v. 19), he offers a brief prayer for their securi...
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NET Notes: Gen 49:19 In Hebrew the name Gad (גָּד, gad ) sounds like the words translated “raided” (יְגוּ...
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NET Notes: Gen 49:20 The word translated “delicacies” refers to foods that were delightful, the kind fit for a king.
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NET Notes: Gen 49:21 Almost every word in the verse is difficult. Some take the imagery to mean that Naphtali will be swift and agile (like a doe), and be used to take goo...
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NET Notes: Gen 49:23 The verb forms in vv. 23-24 are used in a rhetorical manner, describing future events as if they had already taken place.
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NET Notes: Gen 49:25 Jacob envisions God imparting both agricultural (blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below) and human fertility (blessings...
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NET Notes: Gen 49:26 For further discussion of this passage, see I. Sonne, “Genesis 49:24-26,” JBL 65 (1946): 303-6.
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NET Notes: Gen 49:28 Heb “and he blessed them, each of whom according to his blessing, he blessed them.”
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NET Notes: Gen 49:29 Heb “I am about to be gathered” The participle is used here to describe what is imminent.
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NET Notes: Gen 49:32 Some translate the Hebrew term “Heth” as “Hittites” here (see also Gen 23:3), but this gives the impression that these people ...
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