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¹Jacob Supplanter called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

²Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob Supplanter. Sh'ma ·Hear obey· unto Israel God prevails, your father.

³“Reuben See, a son!, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

⁴Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

⁵“Simeon Hearing and Levi United with are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

⁶My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob Supplanter, and scatter them in Israel God prevails.

⁸“Judah Praised, your brothers will yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

⁹Judah Praised is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

¹⁰The scepter will not depart from Judah Praised, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh Him to whom obedience belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

¹¹Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

¹²His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

¹³“Zebulun Living together will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

¹⁴“Issachar Hire, Reward is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

¹⁵He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

¹⁶“Dan He judged will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel God prevails.

¹⁷Dan He judged will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

¹⁸I have waited for your yishu'ah ·salvation·, Adonai . (5)

¹⁹“A troop will press on Gad Good fortune, but he will press on their heel.

²⁰“Asher Happy’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.

²¹“Naphtali My wrestling is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

²²“Joseph May he add is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

²³The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

²⁴But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the 'Avir Ya'akov Mighty One of Supplanter, (from there is the Ro'i Shepherd Provider, the 'Even Isra'el Stone of God prevails),

²⁵even by the God of your father, who will help you; by Shaddai Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the racham ·womb of compassionate love·.

²⁶The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph May he add, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. (6)

²⁷“Benjamin Son of right hand, Son of south is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

²⁸All these are the twelve tribes of Israel God prevails, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

²⁹He enjoined them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron Fawn-like the Hittite Descendant of Trembling fear,

³⁰in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah Double, which is before Mamre Bitter, Fatness, in the land of Canaan Humbled, which Abraham Father of a multitude bought with the field from Ephron Fawn-like the Hittite Descendant of Trembling fear as a burial place.

³¹There they buried Abraham Father of a multitude and Sarah Princess, his wife. There they buried Isaac Laughter and Rebekah Securely bound, his wife, and there I buried Leah Weary:

³²the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth Trembling fear.”

³³When Jacob Supplanter finished enjoining words to his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.