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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 49, Verse 21

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Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
King James Version
Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
American Standard Version
Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words.
New English Translation
Naphtali is a free running doe, he speaks delightful words.
World English Bible
"Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
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:
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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,
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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.
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.