MSTC(i)
3 "Reuben, thou art mine eldest son, my might and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power.
4 As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.
5 The brethren Simeon and Levi, wicked instruments are their weapons.
6 Into their secrets come not my soul, and unto their congregation be my honour not coupled: for in their wrath they slew a man, and in their self will they houghed an ox.
7 Cursed be their wrath for it was strong, and their fierceness for it was cruel. I will therefore divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8 "Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee, and thine hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies, and thy father's children shall stoop unto thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp. From spoil, my son, thou art come on high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a ruler from between his legs, until Shiloh come, unto whom the people shall hearken.
11 He shall bind his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the vine branch, and shall wash his garment in wine and his mantle in the blood of grapes:
12 his eyes are roudier than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
13 "Zebulon shall dwell in the haven of the sea and in the port of ships, and shall reach unto Sidon.
14 Issachar is a strong ass, he couched him down between two borders,
15 and saw that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant, and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.