Genesis 49

CLV(i) 1 And calling is Jacob to his sons and saying, "Gather, and I will tell you what will meet you in the days hereafter. 2 Convene and hear, sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel, your father. 3 Reuben, my firstborn, you are my vigor, and the beginning of my virility, with a surplus for bearing and a surplus of strength. 4 Ebullient as water, you must not have a surplus! For up you went to the bed of your father. Then you violated my berth to which you went up. 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers. They concluded violence out of their covenants. 6 Into their deliberation you must not come, my soul! And in their assembly you must not contend, my glory. For in their anger they killed men, and in their acceptance they felled a chief. 7 Cursed is their anger, for it was strong. And their rage, for it was obstinate. Apportion them will I in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 8 Judah, you and your brothers will acclaim. Your hands shall be on the scruff of your enemies. Prostrate to you shall the sons of your father. 9 The whelp of a lion is Judah. From the prey, my son, bow will he, recline as a lion. And as a parent lion, who will make him rise? 10 Not withdraw shall the sceptre from Judah, nor a statue-maker's staff from between his feet, till it be that ease shall come to him. And to it shall the expectation of the people be. 11 Bind to a vine will he his colt, and to a yellow muscat grape the foal of his she-ass, he rinses in wine his apparel, and in the blood of grapes his coverlet. 12 Flushed will be his eyes from wine, and white, his teeth, from milk. 13 Zebulon at a port of the seas shall tabernacle, and at a port for ships with its flank unto Sidon. 14 Issachar covets pleasantness, recline will he between the hearthstones, an. 15 see a resting place that is good, and a land that is pleasant, yet stretch out will he his shoulder for a burden, and become will he a servant under a labor levy. 16 Dan shall adjudicate his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Become shall Dan a serpent on a way, a horned snake on a path, that bites the heels of a horse, and fall shall its rider backward. 18 For Your salvation I expect, Yahweh!" 19 Gad--a raiding party shall `raid' him, yet he shall raid their heels, 20 Asher--stout shall be his bread, and he will provide royal luxuries. 21 Naphtali is a oak stretched out, the giver of products that are seemly. 22 A fruitful son is Joseph, a fruitful son, joy of my eye, my son, inferior, to me has returned, 23 and bitter were they with him, and contended and begrudging him were the archers, 24 yet broken in virility is their bow, and slack are the arms of their hands. From the hands of the Sturdy One of Jacob, thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel, 25 from the El of your father, and your Helper, and He Who-Suffices, and your Blesser, blessings of the heavens from above, blessings of the submerged chaos reclining beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb, 26 blessings of your father and your mother. Master are they over the blessings of my mountains, unto the yearning of the eonian hills, coming are they on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the governor of his brothers. 27 Benjamin is a wolf, tearing to pieces. In the morning he'll devour further, and in the evening he'll apportion the loot. 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. And this is what their father speaks to them, when he is blessing them. Each man according to his blessing he blesses them. 29 And instructing them is he, and saying to them, "I am being gathered to my people. Entomb me with my forefathers in the cave which is in the field of Ephron, the Hittite, 30 in the double cave which is in the field adjoining Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron, the Hittite, for a freehold for a tomb. 31 And there they entombed Isaac and Rebecca, his wife. "And there I entombed Leah. 32 Bought was the field and the cave which is in it from the sons of Heth. 33 And finishing is Jacob instructing his sons, and gathering is he his feet into the couch and is expiring, and is being gathered to his people.