Genesis 49:12

His eyes are no longer clear because he has been drinking wine. And his teeth are white from drinking milk.”

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In The King James Version

His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

In Context

11You will be like someone with lots of good grapevines. His vines grow big and he ties his young donkey to the best one. He has so much wine he can wash his clothes in it.

13Then Jacob spoke to his son Zebulun and said, “Zebulun, you will live beside the sea. Your country will reach right over to Sidon. Ships will come into its bays.”

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:9-13

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the… Read the whole commentary →

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