Genesis 49:12

There will be enough wine for everybody in Judah’s land, and they will all have lots of milk to drink.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Judah’s land will be full of good grape vines. His tribe will even tie their donkeys to those grape vines, so that the donkeys can eat the grapes. They will make lots of grape juice and wine. They will have even more grape juice and wine than water.

13Then Jacob said, “Zebulun’s tribe will set up their camp next to the sea, and it will be a safe place for ships. The north bit of Zebulun’s land will be near the town called Sidon, in Fonisha country.”

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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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