Genesis 49:17
Good News Translation
Dan will be a snake at the side of the road, A poisonous snake beside the path, That strikes at the horse's heel, So that the rider is thrown off backward.

New Revised Standard Version
Dan shall be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward.

Contemporary English Version
You are a snake that bites the heel of a horse, making its rider fall.

New American Bible
Let Dan be a serpent by the roadside, a horned viper by the path, That bites the horse’s heel, so that the rider tumbles backward.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.

shall be.

Judges 14:1-15:20 Then Samson went down to Thamnatha, and seeing there a woman of the daughters of the Philistines, . . .

Judges 16:22-30 And now his hair began to grow again, . . .

Judges 18:22-31 And were now at a distance from the house of Michas, the men that dwelt in the houses of Michas gathering together followed them, . . .

1 Chronicles 12:35 Of Dan also twenty-eight thousand six hundred prepared for battle.

an adder.

Context
Jacob Blesses His Sons
16Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel. 17Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.18I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

Genesis 49:18
I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

Proverbs 23:32
But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

Ecclesiastes 10:11
If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Genesis 49:16
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