Genesis 49:28Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one with their proper blessings.
Douay-Rheims

כָּל־אֵ֛לֶּה שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שְׁנֵ֣ים עָשָׂ֑ר וְ֠זֹאת אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֨ר לָהֶ֤ם אֲבִיהֶם֙ וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אוֹתָ֔ם אִ֛ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר כְּבִרְכָת֖וֹ בֵּרַ֥ךְ אֹתָֽם׃
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John Chrysostom

4th centuryChurch Father

After Jacob conveyed the blessings designated for each of his sons, it is written, “And he blessed them, and gave them blessings, to each his own.” In this way, he prophesied what was fitting for each one and revealed future occurrences pertaining to each tribe.

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Passages read together with this verse.

Rev 7:4And I heard the number of them that were signed. An hundred forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel.
Esth 8:7And king Assuerus answered Esther the queen, and Mardochai the Jew: I have given Aman's house to Esther, and I have commanded him to be hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews.
Esth 8:11And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.
Acts 26:7Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to come. For which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews.
Esth 9:1So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be massacred, and their enemies were greedy after their blood, the case being altered, the Jews began to have the upper hand, and to revenge themselves of their adversaries.
Esth 9:10And when they had slain them, they would not touch the spoils of their goods.
Esth 8:9Then the king's scribes and secretaries were called for (now it was the time of the third month which is called Siban) the three and twentieth day of the month, and letters were written, as Mardochai had a mind, to the Jews, and to the governors, and to the deputies, and to the judges, who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to province and province, to people and people, according to their languages and characters, and to the Jews, according as they could read and hear.
Ezek 39:8Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith the Lord God: this is the day whereof I have spoken.