Génesis 49
1 Y llamó Jacob a sus hijos, y dijo: Juntáos y declararos he lo que os ha de acontecer en los postreros días.
And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2 Juntáos y oíd, hijos de Jacob, y oíd a vuestro padre Israel.
Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and listen to Israel your father.
3 Rubén, tú eres mi primogénito, mi fortaleza, y el principio de mi vigor: principal en dignidad, principal en fortaleza:
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Corriente como las aguas, no seas el principal; por cuanto subiste al lecho de tu padre; entonces te envileciste subiendo a mi estrado.
Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch.
5 Simeón y Leví, hermanos; armas de iniquidad sus armas.
Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
6 En su secreto no entre mi alma, ni mi honra se junte en su compañía; que en su furor mataron varón, y en su voluntad arrancaron muro.
O my soul, come not you into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they dig down a wall.
7 Maldito su furor que es fuerte: y su ira, que es dura: yo los apartaré en Jacob, y los esparciré en Israel.
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.
8 Judá, tú, alabarte han tus hermanos: tu mano en la cerviz de tus enemigos: los hijos de tu padre se inclinarán a ti.
Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.
9 Cachorro de león Judá: de la presa subiste, hijo mío: encorvóse, echóse como león, y como león viejo, ¿quién lo despertará?
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 No será quitado el cetro de Judá, y el legislador de entre sus pies, hasta que venga Siloh, y a él se congregarán los pueblos:
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Atando a la vid su pollino, y a la cepa el hijo de su asna; lavó en el vino su vestido, y en la sangre de uvas su cobertura.
Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass’s colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 Los ojos bermejos del vino, los dientes blancos de la leche.
His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13 Zabulón en puertos de mar habitará, y en puerto de navíos: y su término será hasta Sidón.
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be to Zidon.
14 Isacar, asno de hueso echado entre dos líos.
Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
15 Y vio que el descanso era bueno, y que la tierra era deleitosa, y abajó su hombro para llevar, y sirvió en tributo.
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute.
16 Dan, juzgará a su pueblo, como una de las tribus de Israel.
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Será Dan serpiente junto al camino, víbora junto a la senda, que muerde los talones de los caballos, y hace caer por detrás al cabalgador de ellos.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
18 Tu salud esperé, oh Jehová.
I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.
19 Gad, ejército le acometerá; mas al fin él acometerá.
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 El pan de Aser será grueso, y él dará deleites de rey.
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21 Neftalí, cierva dejada que dará dichos hermosos.
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words.
22 Ramo fructífero José, ramo fructífero junto a fuente; las doncellas van sobre el muro.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23 Y amargáronle, y asaeteáronle, y aborreciéronle los señores de saetas.
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 Mas su arco quedó en fortaleza, y los brazos de sus manos se corroboraron por las manos del fuerte Dios de Jacob: de allí apacentó la piedra de Israel:
But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel: )
25 Del Dios de tu padre, el cual te ayudará, y del Omnipotente, el cual te bendecirá con bendiciones de los cielos de arriba, con bendiciones del abismo que está abajo, con bendiciones de pechos y de matriz.
Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
26 Las bendiciones de tu padre fueron mayores que las bendiciones de mis progenitores: hasta el término de los collados eternos serán sobre la cabeza de José y sobre la mollera del Nazareno de sus hermanos.
The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to 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 brothers.
27 Ben-jamín, lobo arrebatador: a la mañana comerá la presa, y a la tarde repartirá los despojos.
Benjamin shall shred as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
28 Todos estos fueron las tribus de Israel, doce: y esto fue lo que su padre les dijo: y bendíjoles: a cada uno por su bendición los bendijo.
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spoke to them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29 Y mandóles, y díjoles: Yo soy congregado con mi pueblo; sepultádme con mis padres en la cueva, que está en el campo de Efrón el Jetteo.
And he charged them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 En la cueva que está en el campo de la dobladura, que está delante de Mamré en la tierra de Canaán, la cual compró Abraham con el mismo campo de Efrón el Jetteo para heredad de sepultura.
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 burial plot.
31 Allí sepultaron a Abraham, y a Sara su mujer: allí sepultaron a Isaac, y a Rebeca su mujer: allí también sepulté yo a Lia.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32 Compra del campo y de la cueva que está en él, de los hijos de Jet.
The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
33 Y como acabó Jacob de dar mandamientos a sus hijos, encogió sus pies en la cama, y espiró; y fue congregado con sus padres.
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 to his people.
