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Genesis 49:27

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“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
In the morning he will devour the prey.
At evening he will divide the plunder.”

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Genesis 49:27 in other translations

Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil.

Genesis 49:27 · American Standard Version

Genesis 49:27 in context

  1. 25even by the God of your father, who will help you,
    by the Almighty, who will bless you,
    with blessings of heaven above,
    blessings of the deep that lies below,
    blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
  2. 26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors,
    above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
    They will be on the head of Joseph,
    on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
  3. 27“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
    In the morning he will devour the prey.
    At evening he will divide the plunder.”
  4. 28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.
  5. 29He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,