Verse 17
Genesis 49:17
Darby Translation
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Dan will be a serpent on the way, A horned snake on the path, Which biteth the horse's heels, So that the rider falleth backwards.
Original Language Text
hebrew
יְהִי דָן֙ נָחָ֣שׁ עֲלֵי דֶ֔רֶךְ שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן עֲלֵי אֹ֑רַח הַ/נֹּשֵׁךְ֙ עִקְּבֵי ס֔וּס וַ/יִּפֹּ֥ל רֹכְב֖/וֹ אָחֽוֹר
English Translation
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of horses so that their rider falls backward.
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Chapter 49 Context
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Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, And listen to Israel your father.
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Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
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Cursed be their anger, for it [was] violent; And their rage, for it [was] cruel! I will divide them...
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Judah [as to] thee, thy brethren will praise thee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies;...
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Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down...
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The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, A...
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He bindeth his foal to the vine, And his ass's colt to the choice vine; He washeth his dress in wine...
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The eyes are red with wine, And the teeth [are] white with milk.
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Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; Yea, he will be at the shore of the ships, And his side...
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Issachar is a bony ass, Crouching down between two hurdles.
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And he saw the rest that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder t...
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Dan will judge his people, As another of the tribes of Israel.
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I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
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Gad troops will rush upon him; But he will rush upon the heel.
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Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he will give royal dainties.
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Naphtali is a hind let loose; He giveth goodly words.
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Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well; [His] branches shoot over the wall.
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The archers have provoked him, And shot at, and hated him;
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But his bow abideth firm, And the arms of his hands are supple By the hands of the Mighty One of Jac...
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From the God (Elohim) of thy father, and he will help thee; And from the Almighty, and he will bless...
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The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my ancestors, Unto the bounds of the everlastin...
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Benjamin [as] a wolf will he tear to pieces; In the morning he will devour the prey, And in the even...
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All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them; and he bless...
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And he charged them, and said to them, I am gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the ca...
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in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite to Mamre, in the land of Canaan, wh...
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife; and ther...
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The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth.
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered his feet into the bed, and expire...
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