Benjamin (son of Jacob)

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• 1CH 2:1–2, engwebp

  ¹These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

  ²Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

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• 1CH 7:6–12, engwebp

  ⁶The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.

  ⁷The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.

  ⁸The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

  ⁹They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.

  ¹⁰The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

  ¹¹All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.

  ¹²So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.

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• 1CH 8:1–5, engwebp

  ¹Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,

  ²Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

  ³Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,

  ⁴Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,

  ⁵Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.

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• ACT 13:14–41, engwebp

  ¹⁴But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.

  ¹⁵After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

  ¹⁶Paul stood up, and gesturing with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

  ¹⁷The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.

  ¹⁸For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

  ¹⁹When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.

  ²⁰After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

  ²¹Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

  ²²When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

  ²³From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

  ²⁴before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

  ²⁵As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

  ²⁶“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

  ²⁷For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

  ²⁸Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

  ²⁹When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

  ³⁰But God raised him from the dead,

  ³¹and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

  ³²We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

  ³³that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

  ³⁴“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

  ³⁵Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

  ³⁶For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

  ³⁷But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

  ³⁸Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins;

  ³⁹and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

  ⁴⁰Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:

  ⁴¹‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’”

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• DEU 33:12, engwebp

  ¹²About Benjamin he said, “The beloved of the LORD will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.”

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• EXO 1:1–7, engwebp

  ¹Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

  ²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

  ³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

  ⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

  ⁵All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

  ⁶Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

  ⁷The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

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• GEN 35:16–20, engwebp

  ¹⁶They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

  ¹⁷When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

  ¹⁸As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

  ¹⁹Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

  ²⁰Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

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• GEN 35:22–26, engwebp

  ²²While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

  ²³The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

  ²⁴The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

  ²⁵The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.

  ²⁶The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

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• GEN 42:1–5, engwebp

  ¹Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

  ²He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

  ³Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  ⁴But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

  ⁵The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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• GEN 42:10–38, engwebp

  ¹⁰They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

  ¹¹We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

  ¹²He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

  ¹³They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

  ¹⁴Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

  ¹⁵By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

  ¹⁶Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”

  ¹⁷He put them all together into custody for three days.

  ¹⁸Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

  ¹⁹If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

  ²⁰Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

  ²¹They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

  ²²Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

  ²³They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

  ²⁴He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

  ²⁵Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

  ²⁶They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

  ²⁷As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

  ²⁸He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

  ²⁹They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

  ³⁰“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

  ³¹We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

  ³²We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

  ³³The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

  ³⁴Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”

  ³⁵As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

  ³⁶Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

  ³⁷Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”

  ³⁸He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

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• GEN 43:1–28, engwebp

  ¹The famine was severe in the land.

  ²When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

  ³Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’

  ⁴If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;

  ⁵but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”

  ⁶Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”

  ⁷They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

  ⁸Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

  ⁹I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;

  ¹⁰for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”

  ¹¹Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

  ¹²and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

  ¹³Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

  ¹⁴May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

  ¹⁵The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  ¹⁶When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”

  ¹⁷The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.

  ¹⁸The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

  ¹⁹They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

  ²⁰and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

  ²¹When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

  ²²We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”

  ²³He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

  ²⁴The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.

  ²⁵They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

  ²⁶When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.

  ²⁷He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

  ²⁸They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.

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• GEN 43:29–30, engwebp

  ²⁹He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

  ³⁰Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

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• GEN 43:31–34, engwebp

  ³¹He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

  ³²They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

  ³³They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled with one another.

  ³⁴He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

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• GEN 44:1–17, engwebp

  ¹He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

  ²Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

  ³As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

  ⁴When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

  ⁵Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”

  ⁶He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.

  ⁷They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

  ⁸Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?

  ⁹With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”

  ¹⁰He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”

  ¹¹Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

  ¹²He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

  ¹³Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

  ¹⁴Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

  ¹⁵Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”

  ¹⁶Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

  ¹⁷He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

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• GEN 45:9–28, engwebp

  ⁹Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.

  ¹⁰You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

  ¹¹There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’

  ¹²Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

  ¹³You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”

  ¹⁴He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

  ¹⁵He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

  ¹⁶The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

  ¹⁷Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  ¹⁸Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’

  ¹⁹Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

  ²⁰Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

  ²¹The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

  ²²He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

  ²³He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.

  ²⁴So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

  ²⁵They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

  ²⁶They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

  ²⁷They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.

  ²⁸Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

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• GEN 46:8–27, engwebp

  ⁸These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

  ⁹The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

  ¹⁰The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

  ¹¹The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  ¹²The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

  ¹³The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

  ¹⁴The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

  ¹⁵These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

  ¹⁶The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

  ¹⁷The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

  ¹⁸These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

  ¹⁹The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

  ²⁰To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

  ²¹The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

  ²²These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

  ²³The son of Dan: Hushim.

  ²⁴The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

  ²⁵These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

  ²⁶All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

  ²⁷The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

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• GEN 49:1–27, engwebp

  ¹Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

  ²Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

  ³“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

  ⁴Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

  ⁵“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

  ⁶My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

  ⁷Cursed 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“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

  ⁹Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

  ¹⁰The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him.

  ¹¹Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

  ¹²His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

  ¹³“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

  ¹⁴“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

  ¹⁵He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

  ¹⁶“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

  ¹⁷Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

  ¹⁸I have waited for your salvation, LORD.

  ¹⁹“A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

  ²⁰“Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.

  ²¹“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

  ²²“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

  ²³The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

  ²⁴But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

  ²⁵even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

  ²⁶The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

  ²⁷“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

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• NUM 26:38–41, engwebp

  ³⁸The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

  ³⁹of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

  ⁴⁰The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

  ⁴¹These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

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