Old/New Testament
49 Then Jacob called his sons, and said, “Gather yourselves together, so that I may tell you what shall come to you in the last days.
2 “Gather yourselves together and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel, your father.
3 “Reuben, my eldest son, you are my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.
4 “You were light as water. You shall not be excellent, because you went up to your father’s bed. Then, you defiled my bed. Your dignity is gone.
5 “Simeon and Levi (brothers). Their weapons are the instruments of cruelty.
6 “Do not let my soul come into their secret, nor my glory be joined with their assembly. For in their wrath they killed a man; and in their self-will they dug down a wall.
7 “Cursed be their wrath, for it was fierce, and their rage, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
8 “You, Judah. Your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons shall bow down before you.
9 “Judah, as a lion’s cub you shall come up from the prey, my son. He shall lie down and crouch as a lion, and as a lioness. Who shall stir him up?
10 “The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come. And the people shall be gathered to him.
11 “He shall bind his donkey foal to the Vine, and his donkey’s colt to the Best Vine. He shall wash His garment in wine, and His cloak in the blood of grapes.
12 “His eyes shall be red with wine, and His teeth white with milk.
13 “Zebulun shall dwell by the seaside; and he shall be a haven for ships. And his border shall be to Sidon.
14 “Issachar shall be a strong donkey, crouching down between two burdens.
15 “And he shall see that rest is good, and that the land is pleasant; and he shall bow his shoulder to bear and shall be subject to tribute.
16 “Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 “Dan shall be a serpent on the way, an adder by the path, biting the horse heels so that his rider shall fall backward.
18 “O LORD, I have waited for Your salvation!
19 “Gad. An army of men shall overcome him; but he shall overcome in the end.
20 “Concerning Asher, his bread shall be fat and he shall give pleasures for a king.
21 “Naphtali shall be a loosed deer, using beautiful words.
22 “Joseph shall be a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by the well side. His small boughs shall overrun the wall.
23 “And the archers grieved him and shot and hated him.
24 “But, his bow remained strong; and the hands of his arms were strengthened by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (by Whom was the Feeder appointed by the Stone of Israel),
25 “by the God of your father, Who shall help you, and by the Almighty Who shall bless you with heavenly blessings from above, with blessings of the deep that lies beneath, with blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
26 “The blessings of your father shall be stronger than the blessings of my elders. To the end of the hills of the world shall they be on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.
27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he shall devour the prey and at night he shall divide the plunder.”
28 All these are the Twelve Tribes of Israel; and thus their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed every one of them with a specific blessing.
29 And he charged them, and said to them, “I am ready to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 “in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah (besides Mamre, in the land of Canaan) which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a burial possession.
31 “There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife. And there I buried Leah.
32 “The purchase of the field, and the cave that is therein, were bought from the children of Heth.”
33 Thus, Jacob finished giving charge to his sons and drew his feet into the bed and gave up the ghost and was gathered to his people.
50 Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face and wept upon him and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 So, forty days were fulfilled (for so long did the days of those who were embalmed last); and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.
4 And when the days of his mourning had passed, Joseph spoke to the House of Pharaoh, saying, “If I have now found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, and say,
5 ‘My father made me swear saying, “Lo, I die. Bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.”’ Now, therefore, please let me go and bury my father; and I will come back.”
6 Then Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he has made you swear to do.”
7 So, Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went with him, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
8 Likewise, all the House of Joseph went, and his brothers, and his father’s House. Only their children and their sheep and their cattle did they leave in the land of Goshen.
9 And both chariots and horsemen went up with him. And they were an exceedingly great company.
10 And they came to Goren Atad (which is beyond Jordan); and there they made a great and exceedingly severe lamentation. And he mourned for his father for seven days.
11 And when the Canaanites (the inhabitants of the land) saw the mourning in Goren Atad, they said, “This is a great mourning to the Egyptians.” Therefore, the name thereof was called “Abel Mizraim,” which is beyond Jordan.
12 So, his sons did to him as he had commanded them.
13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite (beside Mamre) as a burial place.
14 Then Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 And when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
16 Therefore, they sent to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before his death, saying,
17 ‘Thus shall you say to Joseph, “Please forgive, now, the trespass of your brothers and their sin. For they rewarded you evil.”’ And now, please forgive the trespass of the servants of your father’s God.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18 Also, his brothers came to him and fell down before his face, and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
19 To whom Joseph said, “Do not fear. For, am not I under God?
20 “When you thought evil against me, God disposed it to good, so that He might bring to pass as it is this day and save many people alive.
21 “Now, therefore, do not fear. I will nourish you and your children.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
22 So, Joseph dwelt in Egypt (he and his father’s House). And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children, even to the third generation. Also, the sons of Machir (the son of Manasseh) were brought upon Joseph’s knees.
24 And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am ready to die; and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land, to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
25 And Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you; and you shall carry my bones from there.”
26 So, Joseph died when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
31 He put forth another parable to them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man takes and sows in his field,
32 “which indeed is the least of all seeds. But when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs. And it becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and build in its branches.”
33 He spoke another parable to them, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till all was leavened.”
34 Jesus spoke all these things to the multitude in parables. And He did not speak to them without parables.
35 So that which was spoken by the Prophet might be fulfilled, which says, “I will open my mouth in parables, and will utter the things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of that field.”
37 Then He answered, and said to them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
38 “And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the Kingdom. And the weeds are the children of the evil one.
39 “And the enemy who sows them is the devil. And the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.
40 “Just as the weeds are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be at the end of this world.
41 “The Son of Man shall send forth His angels. And they shall gather all stumbling blocks out of His Kingdom, and those who do iniquity,
42 “and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 “Then shall the just shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.
44 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure, hidden in the field. Which, when a man has found, he hides it. And for joy thereof, departs and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
45 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant man who seeks good pearls,
46 “Who, having found a pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
47 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a draw net, cast into the sea, which gathers of all kinds of things;
48 “which, when it is full, they draw to land, and sit and gather the good into vessels, and cast away the bad.
49 “So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go forth, and separate the bad from among the just;
50 “and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
51 Jesus said to them, “Do you understand all these things?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”
52 Then He said to them, “Therefore, every scribe who is taught about the Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who brings forth, out of his treasure, things both new and old.”
53 And it happened that when Jesus had ended these parables, He departed from there,
54 and came into His own country, and taught them in their synagogue (so that they were astonished, and said, “From where does this wisdom and these great works come to this man?”
55 “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
56 “And are not his sisters all with us? From where, then, did he get all these things?”).
57 And they were offended by Him. Then Jesus said to them, “A Prophet is not without honor, except in His own country and in His own house.”
58 And He did not do many great works there, because of their unbelief.
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