Genesis 49:13
Zabulon shall dwell on the sea shore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Zabulon in littore maris habitabit, et in statione navium pertingens usque ad Sidonem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ζαβουλὼν παράλιος κατοικήσει, καὶ αὐτὸς παρ᾽ ὅρμον πλοίων, καὶ παρατενεῖ ἕως Σιδῶνος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- זְבוּלֻ֕ן לְח֥וֹף יַמִּ֖ים יִשְׁכֹּ֑ן וְהוּא֙ לְח֣וֹף אֳנִיּ֔וֹת וְיַרְכָת֖וֹ עַל צִידֹֽן
Haydock's commentary
Road. The territory of Zabulon was famous for good harbours, being situated between the Mediterranean and the sea of Genezareth. (Menochius)
Jacob marks out the limits to be assigned his children, 200 years before Chanaan was conquered; and Moses wrote this before they possessed a foot of land in it. The reason why Zabulon is placed before his elder brother Issachar, is not known.
Sidon: not the city, but the territory of Sidon, or Phenicia. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Hippolytus On Genesis, Section I
Gen. xlix. 12-15 His eyes are gladsome with wine, and his teeth white as milk. Zabulun shall dwell by the sea, and he shall be by a haven of ships, and he shall extend to Sidon. Issachar desired the good part, resting in the midst of the lots. And seeing that rest was good, and that the land was fat, he set his shoulder to toil, and became a husbandman.