ECB(i)
3 Reu Ben, my firstbirth: you - my force and the beginning of my strength; the remainder of exaltation and the remainder of strength:
4 frothy as water, you remain not, because you ascended to the bed of your father; then you profaned it: he ascended to my couch.
5 Shimon and Levi: brothers with instruments of violence in their swords:
6 come not into their secret, O my soul; to their congregation, unite not, O my honor: for in their wrath they slaughtered a man and in their pleasure they hamstrung oxen:
7 cursed be their wrath, for it is strong; and their fury, for it is hard: I allot them in Yaaqov and scatter them in Yisra El.
8 Yah Hudah: you to whom your brothers spread hands: your hand is on the neck of your enemies; the sons of your father prostrate to you:
9 Yah Hudah is a whelp of a lion: from the prey, my son, you ascend: he kneels; he crouches as a lion and as a roaring lion; who rouses him?
10 Neither turns the scion aside from Yah Hudah nor a statute setter from between his feet until Shiloh come; and the obedience of the people is his:
11 binding his foal to the vine and the son of his she burro to the choice; he launders his robes in wine and his veil in the blood of grapes:
12 his eyes flush with wine and his teeth whiten with milk.
13 Zebulun: he tabernacles at the haven of the sea: and he is for a haven of ships; and his flank is to Sidon.
14 Yissachar: a bony he burro crouching between the stalls:
15 and he sees that rest is good and that the land pleases; and bows his shoulder to bear and becomes to serve as a vassal.
16 Dan: he pleads the cause of his people, as one of the scions of Yisra El:
17 Dan becomes a serpent by the way - an adder in the path who bites the horse heels, so that his rider falls backward.
18 I await your salvation, O Yah Veh.
19 Gad: a troop troops against him: but he troops against the heel. cp Genesis 3:15
20 Asher: his bread fattens and he gives delicacies to the sovereign.
21 Naphtali: a hind sent away: he gives glorious sayings.
22 Yoseph: a fruitful son - a fruitful son by a fountain; whose daughters pace over the wall:
23 the masters of arrows embitter him and shoot and oppose him:
24 and his bow settles perennial and the arms of his hands solidify by the hands of the Almighty of Yaaqov - from there is he who tends, the stone of Yisra El:
25 by El of your father, who helps you; and by Shadday, who blesses you with blessings of the heavens most high - blessings of the abyss that crouch under - blessings of the breasts and of the womb:
26 the blessings of your father prevail mightily above the blessings of those whom I conceived to the limits of the eternal hills: they be on the head of Yoseph and on his scalp who is a Separatist of his brothers.
27 Ben Yamin: he tears as a wolf: in the morning he devours the prey and at evening he allots the loot.