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All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
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Prophecy for Future Tribes
Commentators stress that this verse confirms the preceding prophecies were not just for Jacob's individual sons, but for the entire future nations that would descend from them. Jacob, speaking under divine inspiration, was outlining the character and destiny of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
מכרה mekêrāh — “weapon;” related: כיר kārar or כרה kārāh dig. “Device, design?” related: …
19th Century
Anglican
These are the twelve tribes. —As we have seen in the case of Dan, Jacob had the further objective of forming his descendants into …
Baptist
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his bless…
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16th Century
Protestant
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. Moses would teach us by these words that his predictions did not apply only to the sons of Jaco…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel The twelve sons of Jacob before mentioned were heads of twelve tribes, who…
Jacob blessed everyone according to the blessings God intended to bestow upon them in later times. He spoke about his burial place, from a principl…
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