Genesis 49:15
Good News Translation
But he sees that the resting place is good And that the land is delightful. So he bends his back to carry the load And is forced to work as a slave.

New Revised Standard Version
he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder to the burden, and became a slave at forced labor.

Contemporary English Version
You found them so pleasant that you worked too hard and became a slave.

New American Bible
When he saw how good a settled life was, and how pleasant the land, He bent his shoulder to the burden and became a toiling serf.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

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He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

rest.

Joshua 14:15 The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam the greatest among the Enacims was laid there and the land rested from wars.

Judges 3:11 And the land rested forty years, and Othoniel, the son of Cenez, died.

2 Samuel 7:1 And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

bowed.

Psalm 81:6 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

Ezekiel 29:18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled and there hath been no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it.

Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

Context
Jacob Blesses His Sons
14Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders. 15He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.16Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:14
Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.

Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is slothful shall be under tribute.

Isaiah 31:8
And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face of the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.

Genesis 49:14
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