Gen. 49:1‑28• 1And Jacob called his sons and said, Gather yourselves together, and I will tell you what will befall you at the end of days.
2Assemble yourselves together and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.
3Reuben, thou [art] my first-born, my might, and the firstfruits of my vigour, excellency of dignity and excellency of strength.
4Bubbling up as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: then defiledst thou [it]; he went up to my bed.
5Simeon and Levi [are] brethren, weapons of violence their swords.
6My soul, come not into their council; mine honour, be not united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will houghed oxen.
7Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce, and their rage, for [it was] cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8Judah, thee will thy brethren praise: thy hand [will be] on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children will bow down to thee.
9Judah [is] a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stoopeth, he coucheth as a lion, and as a lioness: who will rouse him up?
10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and to him will be the obedience of peoples.
11He bindeth his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes;
12his eyes [are] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13Zebulun shall dwell at the breach of the seas, and he [shall be] for a haven of ships; and his border [shall be] upon Zidon.
14Issachar [is] a bony ass, couching between two hurdles;
15and he saw rest that [it was] good, and the land that [it was] pleasant; and he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tributary servant.
16Dan shall judge his people, as another of the tribes of Israel.
17Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a horned serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider falleth backward.
18I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
19Gad—troops shall press upon him; but he shall press upon their heel.
20Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21Naphtali [is] a hind let loose; he giveth goodly words.
22Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a fountain; daughters shoot over the wall.
23The archers have provoked, and shot at and hated him;
24but his bow abideth firm, and the arms of his hands are supple by the hands of the mighty One of Jacob. From thence [is] the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel;
25from the God of thy father, he will help thee, and from the Almighty, he will bless thee, with blessings of heaven above, with blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, with blessings of the breast and of the womb.
26The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my progenitors unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
27Benjamin [is] a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and in the evening he shall divide the spoil.
28All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel, and this [is] what their father spake to them; and he blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. (Gen. 49:1‑28)
Lev. 26:1‑46• 1Ye shall make yourselves no idols, nor rear yourselves carved image or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I [am] Jehovah your God.
2Ye shall observe my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] Jehovah.
3If ye walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,
4then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit;
5and your treading out shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.
6And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make [you] afraid: and I will put away the evil beasts out of the land; and the sword shall not go through your land.
7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword;
8and five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9And I will turn my face toward you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10And ye shall eat old store and clear off the old because of the new.
11And I will set my habitation among you; and my soul shall not abhor you;
12and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
13I [am] Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright.
14But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments,
15and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,
16I also will do this unto you: I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies: they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins,
19and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as bronze;
20and your strength shall be spent in vain; and your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21And if ye walk contrary to me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you, according to your sins.
22And I will send the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate.
23And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary to me,
24then will I also walk contrary to you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.
25And I will bring a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27And if for all this ye hearken not to me, but walk contrary to me,
28then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you sevenfold for your sins.
29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
31And I will lay waste your cities, and desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32And I will bring the land into desolation, that your enemies who dwell therein may be astonished at it.
33And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.
34Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths all the days of her desolation, when ye [are] in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest and enjoy her Sabbaths.
35All the days of the desolation it shall rest; in which it rested not on your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36And as to those that remain of you, I will send faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as one fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth;
37and they shall stumble one over another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39And they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.
40And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfullness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary to me,
41so [that] I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
42I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
43For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because, they despised my judgments, and their soul despised my statutes.
44And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, and to break my covenant with them, for I [am] Jehovah their God.
45But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I [am] Jehovah.
46These [are] the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses, (Lev. 26:1‑46)
Deut. 28:1‑68• 1And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth;
2and all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4{i}Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.{/i}
5{i}Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.{/i}
6{i}Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out.{/i}
7{i}Jehovah will give up, smitten before thee, thine enemies that rise up against thee; they shall come out against thee one way, and by seven ways shall they flee before thee.{/i}
8{i}Jehovah will command blessing on thee in thy granaries, and in all the business of thy hand; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.{/i}
9{i}Jehovah will establish thee unto himself a holy people as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways.{/i}
10{i}And all peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah, and they shall be afraid of thee.{/i}
11{i}And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee.{/i}
12{i}Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.{/i}
13{i}And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to keep and to do them,{/i}
14{i}and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.{/i}
15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17{i}Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.{/i}
18{i}Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.{/i}
19{i}Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out.{/i}
20{i}Jehovah will send upon thee cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all the business of thy hand which thou doest, until thou be destroyed and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.{/i}
21{i}Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.{/i}
22{i}Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with burning ague, and with drought, and with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.{/i}
23{i}And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.{/i}
24{i}Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed.{/i}
25Jehovah shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; {i}thou shalt go out against them one way, and by seven ways shalt thou flee before them; and thou shalt be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth.{/i}
26{i}And thy carcass shall be meat unto all the fowl of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no man to scare them away{/i}.
27Jehovah will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28Jehovah shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart;
29{i}and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled continually, and there shall be none to save.{/i}
30{i}Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eat of it.{/i}
31{i}Thine ox shall be slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be snatched away from before thy face, and shall not return to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to recover them.{/i}
32{i}Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand to help it.{/i}
33{i}The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.{/i}
34{i}And thou shalt be mad through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.{/i}
35{i}Jehovah will smite thee in the knees and in the legs with evil ulcers, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.{/i}
36{i}Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.{/i}
37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither Jehovah shall lead thee.
38{i}Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it.{/i}
39{i}Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather the fruit; for the worms shall eat it.{/i}
40{i}Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit.{/i}
41{i}Sons and daughters shalt thou beget, but thou shalt not have them to be with thee; for they shall go into captivity.{/i}
42{i}All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.{/i}
43{i}The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.{/i}
44{i}He shall lend to thee, but thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.{/i}
45{i}And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, until thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee.{/i}
46{i}And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.{/i}
47{i}Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,{/i}
48{i}thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.{/i}
49{i}Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;{/i}
50{i}a nation of fierce countenance, which regardeth not the person of the old, nor is kind to the young;{/i}
51{i}and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; for he shall not leave thee corn, new wine, or oil, offspring of thy kine, or increase of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.{/i}
52{i}And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.{/i}
53{i}And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.{/i}
54{i}The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;{/i}
55{i}so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth, because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.{/i}
56{i}The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness, shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and her son, and her daughter,{/i}
57{i}because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.{/i}
58{i}If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD;{/i}
59{i}then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses;{/i}
60{i}and he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou art afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee.{/i}
61{i}Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.{/i}
62{i}And ye shall be left a small company, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.{/i}
63{i}And it shall come to pass, that as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whereunto thou goest to possess it.{/i}
64{i}And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and thou shalt there serve other gods, whom thou hast not known, neither thou nor thy fathers, wood and stone.{/i}
65{i}And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul.{/i}
66{i}And thy life shall hang in suspense before thee; and thou shalt be in terror day and night and shalt be afraid of thy life.{/i}
67{i}In the morning thou shalt say, Would that it were even! and in the evening thou shalt say, Would that it were morning! through the fright of thy heart wherewith thou shalt be in terror, and through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.{/i}
68{i}And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it again no more; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and there shall be no man to buy you.{/i} (Deut. 28:1‑68)