The Watchtower, study edition, June 2025.

Study Article 24.

This article will be studied during the week of August 18th through 24th.

Lessons for Living from a Deathbed Prophecy, Part 1.

Theme text.

Gather yourselves together that I may tell you what will happen to you in the final part of the days.

Genesis 491.

Song 98.

The Scriptures, Inspired of God.

Focus.

Practical lessons from Jacob's deathbed prophecy regarding Rubin, Simeon, Levi, and Judah.

Paragraphs 1 and 2 question.

What did Jacob do near the end of his life, and why?

Some 17 years have passed since Jehovah's faithful servant Jacob traveled from Canaan to Egypt

with his household. During that time, he experienced the great joy of being reunited with

his beloved son Joseph, and finally seeing his family together again. But now, Jacob senses

that his life is coming to an end. So he calls an important family meeting. In those days,

it was common for a dying family head to gather the members of his family together to give them his final

instructions. He might at that meeting also indicate who would be the head of the family after his

death. The cover picture caption for paragraphs one and two reads,

Jacob on his deathbed, delivering a prophecy to his twelve sons.

Paragraph three, question.

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