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Genesis 49:27

Benjamin

25 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:

26 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.

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.

29 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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BSB
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”
KJV
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
WEB
“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”
ASV
Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning she shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil.
DARBY
Benjamin [as] a wolf will he tear to pieces; In the morning he will devour the prey, And in the evening he will divide the booty.
BLB
Benjamin is a wolf [that] tears; in the morning he shall devour prey, and in the evening he shall divide spoil.”
ÅB
Benjamin er en glupende ulv; om morgenen spiser han opp rov, og om kvelden deler han ut hærfang.
OTB
«Benjamin er en glupsk ulv; om morgenen fortærer han byttet, og om kvelden deler han byttet.»
B1930
Benjamin er en glupende ulv; om morgenen eter han op rov, og om aftenen deler han ut hærfang.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Judges 20:21

    And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

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  • Judges 20:25

    And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

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  • Numbers 23:24

    Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

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  • Ezekiel 22:27

    Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

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  • Genesis 35:18

    And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

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  • Genesis 46:21

    And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

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  • Judges 3:15–29

    But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

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  • Hosea 13:7–8

    Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

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