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CHAP. XLIX.
1 AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather your selves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last dayes a 1.1.
2 Gather your selves together, and hear ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength b 1.2, the excellen∣cy of dignity, and the excellency of power c 1.3.
4 Unstable as water d 1.4 † 1.5 thou shalt not excel e 1.6, because thou * 1.7 wentest up to thy fathers bed, then defiledst thou it f 1.8. ‖ 1.9 He went up to my couch g 1.10. * 1.11
5 * 1.12 Simeon and Levi are brethren h 1.13, ‖ 1.14 instru∣ments of cruelty are in their habitations i 1.15.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret k 1.16: unto their assembly mine honour l 1.17 be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man m 1.18, and in their self-will n 1.19 they ‖ 1.20 digged down a wall o 1.21.
7 Cursed be p 1.22 their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel: I * 1.23 will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel q 1.24.