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Genesis 49:8

Yehudah, thou art he whom thy achim yoducha (they will praise you); 1 thy yad shall be in the oref (neck) of thine enemies; 1 Bnei Avicha shall bow down before thee. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7Arur (cursed) be their anger, for it was fierce; 1 and their wrath, for it was cruel; 1 I will dispense them in Ya'akov, 1 and scatter them in Yisroel. 1

9Yehudah is the cub of an aryeh (lion); 1 from the prey, beni (my son), thou hast gone up; 1 he stooped down, he couched like an aryeh, 1 and like a lioness; who shall rouse him? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 29:35And she conceived again, and bore ben; and she said, Now will odeh (I praise) Hashem; therefore she called shmo Yehudah; and stopped giving birth.

Genesis 42:6And Yosef was the Shalit Al HaAretz, and he it was that sold to kol Am HaAretz: and Achei Yosef came, and prostrated themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 46:12And the Bnei Yehudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Peretz, and Zerach; but Er and Onan died in Eretz Kena'an. And the Bnei Peretz were Chetzron and Chamul.

Numbers 10:14First in place went the degel of the machaneh of the Bnei Yehudah according to their tzivos; and over his division was Nachshon ben Amminadav.

Deuteronomy 33:7And this to Yehudah: and he said, 1 Shema, Hashem, the voice of Yehudah, 1 and bring him unto his people; 1 let his hands contend for him; 1 and be Thou an ezer (help) to him from his enemies. 1

Joshua 15:20This is the nachalah of the tribe of the Bnei Yehudah according to their mishpekhot.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:6-8

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. These were next in age to Reuben, and they also had been a grief and shame to Jacob, when they treacherously and… Read the whole commentary →

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