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And it came to pass that Jacob called unto his sons and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall befall my seed in the last days;
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Gather yourselves together and hear, ye that are Israela; and hearken unto Jacob, your father.
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Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel because thou wentest up to my bed, then thou did defile it;
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Therefore, thy throne shall be set to the Easta, and to the Southb; for thou are beneath even they youngest of thy brethren in Israel.
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But in the ninth montha, even as cometh the winter, thou shalt yet find thy strength, that when the spring shall come, thy seed shall be ready;
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And thou art as the mandrakea plant, for thy roots are strong, and the word of thy seed shall flow with power.
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And thy seed shall seek reason, and wisdom, and not go to war quickly; yet thy seed shall too be strong in their word and known by reasoning.
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¶ And a reda banner shall go out before thee and thy seed, for thou art a fire and a strength before YHVHb; and the judgement of thy seed shall be known in the last days.
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But thy seed shall sleep before the face of YHVH, and their rest shall be great; for even as thou went up to my couch, so too shall thy seed seek after another at the first;
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But behold, when thy seed shall awaken! How great shall be their victory, yea how great shall be the strength of their determination!
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And none shall stop them, for this day I have declared that the first shall be the last, and the last shall be the first:
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And thou, thy seed shall be brought up by Ephraim, the love of thy seed for the seed of Ephraim shall be renown;
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And thy seed shall be established with their brethren in Ephraim, and their kinship shall not be forgotten.
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For in the last days many things shall come to light, and a voice of reason must need be heard.
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¶ And when it shall come to pass that Ephraim and Judah shall establish their bonds, then the seed of Reuben shall be appointed the judgment seat, to sit in their stead and to represent them in their times of need.
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And great shall be the council of thy seed!
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And thy daughters in that day shall surely pour out libationsa upon the altar of YHVH and awaken their hearts and souls to the Elohimb that kept them and succored them in their slumbers;
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And thy daughters shall rule over councils and their wisdom shall be known.
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¶ But during the time of their slumber, they shall sleep very deeply, yea even in a great slumber in the bed chambers of another love;
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Yet YHVH shall keep watch over thy seed until they should awaken;
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For thy seed shall travel first to the Northa, and then to the East and to the Westb, and there they shall find their rest for a time;
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But their camp shall ever be to the South, for there doth the breatha of Elohim preside, and the fireb of Elohim, and the strengthc of Elohim.
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¶ And after thy seed shall slumber for a time, El Elyona shall send out thy brother, Ephraim, to awaken thy seed, and though they shall reject him at the first, he shall strive until thy seed hath found their rest.