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Genesis 49:14-16
New English Translation
Genesis 49:14-16
New English Translation
14 Issachar is a strong-boned donkey
lying down between two saddlebags.
15 When he sees[a] a good resting place,
and the pleasant land,
he will bend his shoulder to the burden
and become a slave laborer.[b]
16 Dan[c] will judge[d] his people
as one of the tribes of Israel.
Footnotes
- Genesis 49:15 tn The verb forms in this verse (“sees,” “will bend,” and “[will] become”) are preterite; they is used in a rhetorical manner, describing the future as if it had already transpired.
- Genesis 49:15 sn The oracle shows that the tribe of Issachar will be willing to trade liberty for the material things of life. Issachar would work (become a slave laborer) for the Canaanites, a reversal of the oracle on Canaan. See C. M. Carmichael, “Some Sayings in Genesis 49, ” JBL 88 (1969): 435-44; and S. Gevirtz, “The Issachar Oracle in the Testament of Jacob,” ErIsr 12 (1975): 104-12.
- Genesis 49:16 sn The name Dan (דָּן, dan) means “judge” and forms a wordplay with the following verb.
- Genesis 49:16 tn Or “govern.”
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