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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 49, Verse 20

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19
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
King James Version
Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
American Standard Version
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties.
New English Translation
Asher’s food will be rich, and he will provide delicacies to royalty.
World English Bible
"Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.
21
Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
22
Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
23
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him:
24
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.
27
Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
28
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,
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In the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.