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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 49, Verse 19

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I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
King James Version
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
American Standard Version
Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press upon their heel.
New English Translation
Gad will be raided by marauding bands, but he will attack them at their heels.
World English Bible
"A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.
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Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield 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, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him:
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But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
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[Even] by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
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The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
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Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this [is it] that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
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And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite,