创世记 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 Iacob called for his sonnes ad sayde: come together that I maye tell you what shall happe you in the last dayes.
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 you together and heare ye sonnes of Iacob and herken vnto Israel youre father.
3 吕便哪，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。
Ruben thou art myne eldest sonne my myghte and the begynnynge of my strength chefe in receauynge and chefe in power.
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。
As vnstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therfore not be the chefest for thou wenst vp vpo thy fathers bedd and than defyledest thou my couche with goynge vppe.
5 西缅和利未是弟兄； 他们的刀剑是残忍的器具。
The brethern Simeon and Leui weked instrumentes are their wepos.
6 我的灵啊，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。
In to their secrettes come not my soule and vnto their congregation be my honoure not coupled: for in their wrath they slewe a man and in their selfewill they houghed an oxe.
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 wrath for it was stronge and their fearsnes for it was cruell. I will therfore deuyde them in Iacob and scater them in Israel.
8 犹大啊，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。
Iuda thy brethern shall prayse the and thine hande shalbe in the necke of thyne enimies and thy fathers childern shall stoupe vnto the.
9 犹大是个小狮子； 我儿啊，你抓了食便上去。 你屈下身去，卧如公狮， 蹲如母狮，谁敢惹你？
Iuda is a lions whelpe. Fro spoyle my sonne thou art come an hye: he layde him downe and couched himselfe as a lion and as a lionesse. Who dare stere him vp?
10 圭必不离犹大， 杖必不离他两脚之间， 直等细罗来到， 万民都必归顺。
The sceptre shall not departe from Iuda nor a ruelar from betwene his legges vntill Silo come vnto whome the people shall herken.
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。
He shall bynde his fole vnto the vine and his asses colt vnto the vyne braunche ad shall wash his garment in wyne and his mantell in the bloud of grapes
12 他的眼睛必因酒红润； 他的牙齿必因奶白亮。
his eyes are roudier than wyne ad his teeth whitter then mylke.
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。
Zabulon shall dwell in the hauen of the see and in the porte of shippes and shall reache vnto Sidon.
14 以萨迦是个强壮的驴， 卧在羊圈之中。
Isachar is a stronge asse he couched him doune betwene. ij. borders
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 sawe that rest was good and the lande that it was pleasant and bowed his shulder to beare and became a servaunte vnto trybute.
16 但必判断他的民， 作以色列支派之一。
Dan shall iudge his people as one of the trybes of Israel.
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 shalbe a serpent in the waye and an edder in the path and byte the horse heles so yt his ryder shall fall backwarde,
18 耶和华啊，我向来等候你的救恩。
After thy sauynge loke I LORde.
19 迦得必被敌军追逼， 他却要追逼他们的脚跟。
Gad men of warre shall invade him. And he shall turne them to flyght.
20 亚设之地必出肥美的粮食， 且出君王的美味。
Off Asser cometh fatt breed and he shall geue pleasures for a kynge.
21 拿弗他利是被释放的母鹿； 他出嘉美的言语。
Nepthali is a swyft hynde ad geueth goodly wordes.
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。
That florishynge childe Ioseph that florishing childe and goodly vn to the eye: the doughters come forth to bere ruele.
23 弓箭手将他苦害， 向他射箭，逼迫他。
The shoters haue envyed him and chyde with him ad hated him
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。
and yet his bowe bode fast and his armes and his handes were stronge by the handes of the myghtye God of Iacob: out of him shall come an herde ma a stone in Israel.
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。
Thi fathers God shall helpe the and the almightie shall blesse the with blessinges from heaven aboue and with blessinges of the water that lieth vnder and with blessinges of the brestes and of the wombe.
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， 临到那与弟兄迥别之人的顶上。
The blessinges of thy father were stronge: euen as the blessinges of my elders after the desyre of the hiest in the worlde and these blessinges shall fall on the head of Ioseph and on the toppe of the head of him yt was separat from his brethern.
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。”
Ben Iamin is a raueshynge wolfe. In the mornynge be shall deuoure his praye ad at nyghte he shall deuyde his spoyle.
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. xij. tribes of Israel and this is that which their father spake vnto them whe he blessed them euery man with a severall blessinge.
29 他又嘱咐他们说：“我将要归到我列祖那里，你们要将我葬在赫人以弗 田间的洞里，与我祖我父在一处，
And he charged them and sayde vnto them. I shall be put vnto my people: se that ye burye me with my fathers in the caue that is in the felde of Ephron the Hethyte
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 买来为业，作坟地的。
in the double caue that is in the felde before Mamre in the lande of Canaan. Which felde Abraham boughte of Ephron the Hethite for a possessio to burye in.
31 他们在那里葬了亚伯拉罕和他妻子撒拉，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 buryed Abraha and Sara his wyfe there they buryed Isaac and Rebecca his wyfe. And there I buried Lea:
32 那块田和田间的洞原是向赫人买的。”
which felde and the caue that is therin was bought of the childern of Heth.
33 雅各嘱咐众子已毕，就把脚收在床上，气绝而死，归他列祖那里去了。
When Iacob had commaunded all that he wold vnto his sonnes be plucked vp his fete apon the bedd and dyed and was put vnto his people.
