उत्पत्ति 49

1 फिर याकूब ने अपने पुत्रों को यह कहकर बुलाया, कि इकट्ठे हो जाओ, मैं तुम को बताऊंगा, कि अन्त के दिनों में तुम पर क्या क्या बीतेगा।

2 हे याकूब के पुत्रों, इकट्ठे हो कर सुनो, अपने पिता इस्राएल की ओर कान लगाओ।

3 हे रूबेन, तू मेरा जेठा, मेरा बल, और मेरे पौरूष का पहिला फल है; प्रतिष्ठा का उत्तम भाग, और शक्ति का भी उत्तम भाग तू ही है।

4 तू जो जल की नाईं उबलने वाला है, इसलिये औरों से श्रेष्ट न ठहरेगा; क्योंकि तू अपने पिता की खाट पर चढ़ा, तब तू ने उसको अशुद्ध किया; वह मेरे बिछौने पर चढ़ गया॥

5 शिमोन और लेवी तो भाई भाई हैं, उनकी तलवारें उपद्रव के हथियार हैं।

6 हे मेरे जीव, उनके मर्म में न पड़, हे मेरी महिमा, उनकी सभा में मत मिल; क्योंकि उन्होंने कोप से मनुष्यों को घात किया, और अपनी ही इच्छा पर चलकर बैलों की पूंछें काटी हैं॥

7 धिक्कार उनके कोप को, जो प्रचण्ड था; और उनके रोष को, जो निर्दय था; मैं उन्हें याकूब में अलग अलग और इस्राएल में तित्तर बित्तर कर दूंगा॥

8 हे यहूदा, तेरे भाई तेरा धन्यवाद करेंगे, तेरा हाथ तेरे शत्रुओं की गर्दन पर पड़ेगा; तेरे पिता के पुत्र तुझे दण्डवत करेंगे॥

9 यहूदा सिंह का डांवरू है। हे मेरे पुत्र, तू अहेर करके गुफा में गया है: वह सिंह वा सिंहनी की नाईं दबकर बैठ गया; फिर कौन उसको छेड़ेगा॥

10 जब तक शीलो न आए तब तक न तो यहूदा से राजदण्ड छूटेगा, न उसके वंश से व्यवस्था देनेवाला अलग होगा; और राज्य राज्य के लोग उसके आधीन हो जाएंगे॥

11 वह अपने जवान गदहे को दाखलता में, और अपनी गदही के बच्चे को उत्तम जाति की दाखलता में बान्धा करेगा ; उसने अपने वस्त्र दाखमधु में, और अपना पहिरावा दाखों के रस में धोया है॥

12 उसकी आंखे दाखमधु से चमकीली और उसके दांत दूध से श्वेत होंगे॥

13 जबूलून समुद्र के तीर पर निवास करेगा, वह जहाजों के लिये बन्दरगाह का काम देगा, और उसका परला भाग सीदोन के निकट पहुंचेगा

14 इस्साकार एक बड़ा और बलवन्त गदहा है, जो पशुओं के बाड़ों के बीच में दबका रहता है॥

15 उसने एक विश्रामस्थान देखकर, कि अच्छा है, और एक देश, कि मनोहर है, अपने कन्धे को बोझ उठाने के लिये झुकाया, और बेगारी में दास का सा काम करने लगा॥

16 दान इस्राएल का एक गोत्र हो कर अपने जातिभाइयों का न्याय करेगा॥

17 दान मार्ग में का एक सांप, और रास्ते में का एक नाग होगा, जो घोड़े की नली को डंसता है, जिस से उसका सवार पछाड़ खाकर गिर पड़ता है॥

18 हे यहोवा, मैं तुझी से उद्धार पाने की बाट जोहता आया हूं॥

19 गाद पर एक दल चढ़ाई तो करेगा; पर वह उसी दल के पिछले भाग पर छापा मारेगा॥

20 आशेर से जो अन्न उत्पन्न होगा वह उत्तम होगा, और वह राजा के योग्य स्वादिष्ट भोजन दिया करेगा॥

21 नप्ताली एक छूटी हुई हरिणी है; वह सुन्दर बातें बोलता है॥

22 यूसुफ बलवन्त लता की एक शाखा है, वह सोते के पास लगी हुई फलवन्त लता की एक शाखा है; उसकी डालियां भीत पर से चढ़कर फैल जाती हैं॥

23 धनुर्धारियों ने उसको खेदित किया, और उस पर तीर मारे, और उसके पीछे पड़े हैं॥

24 पर उसका धनुष दृढ़ रहा, और उसकी बांह और हाथ याकूब के उसी शक्तिमान ईश्वर के हाथों के द्वारा फुर्तीले हुए, जिसके पास से वह चरवाहा आएगा, जो इस्राएल का पत्थर भी ठहरेगा॥

25 यह तेरे पिता के उस ईश्वर का काम है, जो तेरी सहायता करेगा, उस सर्वशक्तिमान को जो तुझे ऊपर से आकाश में की आशीषें, और नीचे से गहिरे जल में की आशीषें, और स्तनों, और गर्भ की आशीषें देगा॥

26 तेरे पिता के आशीर्वाद मेरे पितरों के आशीर्वाद से अधिक बढ़ गए हैं और सनातन पहाडिय़ों की मन- चाही वस्तुओं की नाईं बने रहेंगे: वे यूसुफ के सिर पर, जो अपने भाइयों में से न्यारा हुआ, उसी के सिर के मुकुट पर फूले फलेंगे॥

27 बिन्यामीन फाड़नेहारा हुण्डार है, सवेरे तो वह अहेर भक्षण करेगा, और सांझ को लूट बांट लेगा॥

28 इस्राएल के बारहों गोत्र ये ही हैं: और उनके पिता ने जिस जिस वचन से उन को आशीर्वाद दिया, सो ये ही हैं; एक एक को उसके आशीर्वाद के अनुसार उसने आशीर्वाद दिया।

29 तब उसने यह कहकर उन को आज्ञा दी, कि मैं अपने लोगों के साथ मिलने पर हूं: इसलिये मुझे हित्ती एप्रोन की भूमिवाली गुफा में मेरे बापदादों के साथ मिट्टी देना,

30 अर्थात उसी गुफा में जो कनान देश में मम्रे के साम्हने वाली मकपेला की भूमि में है; उस भूमि को तो इब्राहीम ने हित्ती एप्रोन के हाथ से इसी निमित्त मोल लिया था, कि वह कबरिस्तान के लिये उसकी निज भूमि हो।

31 वहां इब्राहीम और उसकी पत्नी सारा को मिट्टी दी गई; और वहीं इसहाक और उसकी पत्नी रिबका को भी मिट्टी दी गई; और वहीं मैं ने लिआ: को भी मिट्टी दी।

32 वह भूमि और उस में की गुफा हित्तियों के हाथ से मोल ली गई।

33 यह आज्ञा जब याकूब अपने पुत्रों को दे चुका, तब अपने पांव खाट पर समेट प्राण छोड़े, और अपने लोगों में जा मिला।

1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

7 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 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.

9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

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

13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

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

17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

18 I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto 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 brethren.

27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

28 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 blessing he blessed them.

29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

30 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 buryingplace.

31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

33 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 unto his people.

1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?

18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.

20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?

21 They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.

23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

27 And last of all the woman died also.

28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.

34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.

43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

44 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.