Genesis 49:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at night dividing the spoil.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Benjamin is a wolf who hunts: in the morning he devours the prey; in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning he will eat the prey, and in the evening he will divide the spoil."

Genesis 49:27 Cross References

Ezekiel 22:27

Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Judges 20:25

Benjamin moved out against them from Gibeah the second day and struck down eighteen thousand of the Israelites, all of them armed men.

Judges 20:21

The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and struck down on that day twenty-two thousand of the Israelites.

Genesis 46:21

The children of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Genesis 35:18

As her soul was departing, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

Philippians 3:5

circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

Acts 20:29

I know that after I have gone, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

Acts 9:1

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Ezekiel 22:25

Its princes within it are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows within it.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them; a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many; their faithlessness is great.

Deuteronomy 33:12

Of Benjamin he said, “The beloved of the Lord rests in safety— the Most High surrounds him all day long— and he rests between his shoulders.”

Numbers 23:24

Look, a people rising up like a lioness and rousing itself like a lion! It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”

Genesis 49:26

The blessings of your father are stronger than the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Joseph, on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

Genesis 49:28

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one of them with a suitable blessing.

Numbers 1:36

The descendants of Benjamin, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:

Numbers 34:21

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon.