Genesis 49:25-27
New King James Version
25 (A)By the God of your father who will help you,
(B)And by the Almighty (C)who will bless you
With blessings of heaven above,
Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26 The blessings of your father
Have excelled the blessings of my ancestors,
(D)Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.
(E)They shall be on the head of Joseph,
And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
27 “Benjamin is a (F)ravenous wolf;
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
(G)And at night he shall divide the spoil.”
Genesis 49:25-27
English Standard Version
25 (A)by the God of your father who will help you,
by (B)the Almighty[a] (C)who will bless you
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that crouches beneath,
blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26 The blessings of your father
are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents,
up to the bounties (D)of the everlasting hills.[b]
May they be (E)on the head of Joseph,
and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
27 (F)“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,
in the morning devouring the prey
and at evening (G)dividing the spoil.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 49:25 Hebrew Shaddai
- Genesis 49:26 A slight emendation yields (compare Septuagint) the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills
Genesis 49:25-27
King James Version
25 Even 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:
26 The 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.
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