Deuteronomy
33 Now this is the blessing+ with which Moses the man of the [true] God+ blessed the sons of Israel before his death. 2 And he proceeded to say:
“Jehovah—from Siʹnai he came,+
And he flashed forth from Seʹir upon them.+
He beamed forth from the mountainous region of Paʹran,+
3 He was also cherishing his people;*+
All their* holy ones are in your hand.+
And they—they reclined at your feet;*+
They began to receive some of your words.+
5 And he came to be king in Jeshʹu·run,*+
When the heads of the people gathered themselves,+
The entire number of the tribes of Israel.+
7 And this was Judah’s [blessing],*+ as he went on to say:
“Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah,+
And may you bring him to his people.
His arms have contended for what is his;*
And may you prove yourself a helper from his adversaries.”+
“Your Thumʹmim* and your Uʹrim+ belong to the man loyal to you,*+
Whom you put to the test at Masʹsah.+
You began to contend with him by the waters of Merʹi·bah,+
9 The man who said to his father and his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’
Even his brothers he did not acknowledge,+
And his sons he did not know.
For they kept your saying,+
And your covenant they continued to observe.+
10 Let them instruct Jacob in your judicial decisions+
And Israel in your law.+
Let them render up incense before your nostrils+
And a whole offering on your altar.+
11 Bless, O Jehovah, his vital energy,+
And may you show pleasure in the activity of his hands.+
Wound severely in their hips those who rise up against him,+
And those who intensely hate him, that they may not rise up.”+
“Let the beloved+ one of Jehovah reside in security by him,+
While he shelters him the whole day,+
And he must reside between his shoulders.”+
“May his land be continually blessed from Jehovah+
With the choice things of heaven, with dew,*+
And with the watery deep lying down below,+
14 And with the choice things, the products of the sun,+
And with the choice things, the yield of the lunar months,+
15 And with the choicest from the mountains of the east,+
And with the choice things of the indefinitely lasting hills,
16 And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness,+
And with the approval of the One residing in the thornbush.+
May they come upon the head of Joseph+
And upon the crown of the head of the one singled out* from his brothers.+
17 As the firstborn of a bull his splendor is,+
And his horns are the horns of a wild bull.*+
With them he will push peoples+
All together to the ends of the earth,
And they are the tens of thousands of Eʹphra·im,+
And they are the thousands of Ma·nasʹseh.”
18 And as to Zebʹu·lun he said:+
19 Peoples to the mountain they will call.
There they will sacrifice the sacrifices of righteousness.+
For they will suck the abounding wealth of the seas+
And the hidden hoards of the sand.”*
“Blessed is the one widening the borders of Gad.+
And he must tear the arm, yes, the crown of the head.+
21 And he will pick out the first part for himself,*+
For there the allotment of a statute-giver is reserved.+
And the heads of the people will gather themselves together.*
The righteousness of Jehovah will he certainly execute
And his judicial decisions with Israel.”
23 And as to Naphʹta·li he said:+
“Naphʹta·li is satisfied with the approval
And full of the blessing of Jehovah.
“Blessed with sons is Ashʹer.+
Let him become one approved by his brothers,+
And one dipping his foot in oil.+
27 A hiding place is the God of ancient time,+
And underneath are the indefinitely lasting arms.+
And he will drive away from before you the enemy,+
And he will say, ‘Annihilate [them]!’+