Lesson: A Charge to Be Faithful<br>
Reading: Blessings by a dying father<br>
Reference: Gen. 49:1-2, 8-12, 33<br><br>
Genesis 49:1: And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.<br>
Genesis 49:2: Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.<br>
Genesis 49:8: Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.<br>
Genesis 49:9: Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?<br>
Genesis 49:10: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.<br>
Genesis 49:11: Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:<br>
Genesis 49:12: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.<br>
Genesis 49:33: And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. <br>
(KJV)<br>