Genesis 49:27-29

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁷‘Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,
in the morning devouring the prey,
and at evening dividing the spoil.’

²⁸All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one of them with a suitable blessing.

Jacob’s Death and Burial

²⁹Then he charged them, saying to them, ‘I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors—in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

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