New English Translation

Genesis 49:26-33 New English Translation (NET)

26. The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountainsor the desirable things of the age-old hills.They will be on the head of Josephand on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

27. Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;in the morning devouring the prey,and in the evening dividing the plunder.”

28. These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.

29. Then he instructed them, “I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

30. It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

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

32. The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”

33. When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.