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Genesis 49:18-24 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

18. I will look for thy salvation, 0 Lord.

19. Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.

20. Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.

21. Nephtali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.

22. Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold; the daughters run to and fro upon the wall.

23. But they that held darts provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.

24. His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

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