Genesis 49:22–33

22 “Joseph is a fruitful bough,

A fruitful bough by a well;

His branches run over the wall.

23 The archers have bbitterly grieved him,

Shot at him and hated him.

24 But his cbow remained in strength,

And the arms of his hands were 7made strong

By the hands of dthe Mighty God of Jacob

e(From there fis the Shepherd, gthe Stone of Israel),

25 hBy the God of your father who will help you,

iAnd by the Almighty jwho 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,

kUp to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.

lThey 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 mravenous wolf;

In the morning he shall devour the prey,

nAnd at night he shall divide the spoil.”

28 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.

Jacob’s Death and Burial

29 Then he charged them and said to them: “I oam to be gathered to my people; pbury me with my fathers qin the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, rwhich Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place. 31 sThere they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, tthere they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah. 32 The field and the cave that is there were purchased from the sons of Heth.” 33 And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.