Genesis 49:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.

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  • Gen 30:13 : 13 And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.
  • Deut 33:24-25 : 24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil. 25 Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be.
  • Josh 19:24-31 : 24 And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families. 25 And their limit was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph 26 And Alammelech and Amad and Mishal, stretching to Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath; 27 Turning to the east to Beth-dagon and stretching to Zebulun and the valley of Iphtah-el as far as Beth-emek and Neiel to the north; on the left it goes as far as Cabul 28 And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah, to great Zidon; 29 And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib; 30 And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places. 31 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
  • Gen 46:17 : 17 And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

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  • 79%

    23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, made glad with grace and full of the blessing of the Lord: the sea and its fishes will be his.

    24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil.

    25 Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be.

  • Ezek 48:2-3
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    72%

    2 And on the limit of Dan, from the east side to the west side: Asher, one part.

    3 And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one part.

  • 19 Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight.

  • 13 And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.

  • 31 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

  • Num 1:40-41
    2 verses
    68%

    40 The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

    41 Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered.

  • 24 And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families.

  • 21 Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones.

  • 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

  • Num 26:46-47
    2 verses
    67%

    46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

    47 These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

  • 17 And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

  • 66%

    18 And of Zebulun he said, Be glad, Zebulun, in your going out; and, Issachar, in your tents.

    19 They will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the sand.

    20 Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head.

  • 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.

  • 36 And of Asher, forty thousand who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight.

  • Judg 1:31-32
    2 verses
    65%

    31 And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or Aphik, or Rehob, driving them out;

    32 But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites, the people of the land, without driving them out.

  • 27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi.

  • 74 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts,

  • 30 And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands:

  • 22 And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

  • Gen 49:14-15
    2 verses
    64%

    14 Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks:

    15 And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

  • 26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.

  • 40 And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

  • 64%

    13 He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

    14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

  • 2 Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

  • 5 A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

  • 25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

  • 13 From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran;

  • 29 And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

  • 39 Then Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far from the fertile places of the earth, and far from the dew of heaven on high will your living-place be:

  • 15 My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.

  • 10 To the south it is Ephraim's, and to the north it is Manasseh's, and the sea is his limit; and they are touching Asher on the north, and Issachar on the east.

  • 17 Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

  • 29 So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

  • 16 ...

  • 16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

  • 23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister.

  • 31 And he made ready a meal, good to the taste, and took it to his father, and said to him, Let my father get up and take of his son's meat, so that you may give me a blessing.