Genesis 49:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your father.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 34:11 : 11 Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the LORD.
  • Prov 1:8-9 : 8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother. 9 For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment. 2 Because I hereby give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching. 3 When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother, 4 he taught me, and he said to me:“Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.
  • Prov 5:1 : 1 Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
  • Prov 7:1 : 1 Admonition to Avoid the Wiles of the Adulteress My child, devote yourself to my words and store up my commands inside yourself.
  • Prov 7:24 : 24 So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak.
  • Prov 8:32 : 32 “So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  • Prov 23:26 : 26 Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1The Blessing of Jacob Jacob called for his sons and said,“Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.

  • Gen 48:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Manasseh and Ephraim After these things Joseph was told,“Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

    2When Jacob was told,“Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.

  • 28These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.

  • Gen 48:8-10
    3 verses
    73%

    8When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked,“Who are these?”

    9Joseph said to his father,“They are the sons God has given me in this place.” His father said,“Bring them to me so I may bless them.”

    10Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of his age; he was not able to see well. So Joseph brought his sons near to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

  • 4The Lord Reminds Them of the Unfaithfulness of Their Ancestors Now listen to what the LORD’s message, you descendants of Jacob, all you family groups from the nation of Israel.

  • 2God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said,“Jacob, Jacob!” He replied,“Here I am!”

  • 33When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.

  • 29They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

  • 21Then Israel said to Joseph,“I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

  • 6Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

  • 3Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.

  • 1 Chr 2:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Israel’s Descendants These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar and Zebulun;

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

  • 34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.

  • 19But his father refused and said,“I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”

  • 7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • 10You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me– you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

  • 1Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him,“My son!”“Here I am!” Esau replied.

  • 1Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

  • 25So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

  • 18He went to his father and said,“My father!” Isaac replied,“Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

  • 8Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

  • 10Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

  • 29Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

  • 5“Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

  • 26The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers.