第49 章
49:1 雅各叫了他的儿子们来，说，你们都来聚集，我好把你们日后必遇的事告诉你们。
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.
49:2 雅各的儿子们，你们要聚集而听，要听你们父亲以色列的话。
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
49:3 流便哪，你是我的长子，是我力量强壮的时候生的，本当大有尊荣，权力超众。
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
49:4 但你放纵情欲，滚沸如水，必不得居首位。因为你上了你父亲的床，污秽了我的榻。
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.
49:5 西缅和利未是弟兄。他们的刀剑是残忍的器具。
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
49:6 我的灵阿，不要与他们同谋。我的心哪，不要与他们联络。因为他们趁怒杀害人命，任意砍断牛腿大筋。
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
49:7 他们的怒气暴烈可咒。他们的忿恨残忍可诅。我要使他们分居在雅各家里，散住在以色列地中。
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.
49:8 犹大阿，你弟兄们必赞美你。你手必掐住仇敌的颈项。你父亲的儿子们必向你下拜。
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.
49:9 犹大是个小狮子。我儿阿，你抓了食便上去。你屈下身去，卧如公狮，蹲如母狮，谁敢惹你。
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?
49:10 圭必不离犹大，杖必不离他两脚之间，直等细罗（就是赐平安者）来到，万民都必归顺。
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.
49:11 犹大把小驴拴在葡萄树上，把驴驹拴在美好的葡萄树上。他在葡萄酒中洗了衣服，在葡萄汁中洗了袍褂。
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:
49:12 他的眼睛必因酒红润。他的牙齿必因奶白亮。
His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
49:13 西布伦必住在海口，必成为停船的海口。他的境界必延到西顿。
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
49:14 以萨迦是个强壮的驴，卧在羊圈之中。
Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
49:15 他以安静为佳，以肥地为美，便低肩背重，成为服苦的仆人。
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
49:16 但必判断他的民，作以色列支派之一。
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
49:17 但必作道上的蛇，路中的虺，咬伤马蹄，使骑马的坠落于后。
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
49:18 耶和华阿，我向来等候你的救恩。
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
49:19 迦得必被敌军追逼，他却要追逼他们的脚跟。
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
49:20 亚设之地必出肥美的粮食，且出君王的美味。
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
49:21 拿弗他利是被释放的母鹿。他出嘉美的言语。
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
49:22 约瑟是多结果子的树枝，是泉旁多结果的枝子。他的枝条探出墙外。
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
49:23 弓箭手将他苦害，向他射箭，逼迫他。
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
49:24 但他的弓仍旧坚硬。他的手健壮敏捷。这是因以色列的牧者，以色列的磐石就是雅各的大能者。
But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
49:25 你父亲的神必帮助你。那全能者必将天上所有的福，地里所藏的福，以及生产乳养的福，都赐给你。
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:
49:26 你父亲所祝的福，胜过我祖先所祝的福，如永世的山岭，至极的边界。这些福必降在约瑟的头上，临列那与弟兄迥别之人的顶上。
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.
49:27 便雅悯是个撕掠的狼，早晨要吃他所抓的，晚上要分他所夺的。
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
49:28 这一切是以色列的十二支派。这也是他们的父亲对他们所说的话，为他们所祝的福，都是按着各人的福分为他们祝福。
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
49:29 他又嘱咐他们说，我将要归到我列祖（原文作本民）那里，你们要将我葬在赫人以弗仑田间的洞里，与我祖我父在一处，
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
49:30 就是在迦南地幔利前，麦比拉田间的洞。那洞和田是亚伯拉罕向赫人以弗仑买来为业，作坟地的。
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
49:31 他们在那里葬了亚伯拉罕和他妻撒拉，又在那里葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加。我也在那里葬了利亚。
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
49:32 那块田和田间的洞原是向赫人买的。
The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
49:33 雅各嘱咐众子已毕，就把脚收在床上，气绝而死，归到列祖（原文作本民）那里去了。
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.