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YAAQOV BLESSES HIS SONS
And Yaaqov calls to his sons, and says, Gather and I tell you what confronts you in the final days. 2 Gather and hear, you sons of Yaaqov and hearken to Yisra El your father. 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. 28 All these: the twelve scions of Yisra El: and this is it what their father words to them; and he blesses them - every man according to his blessing he blesses them.
YAAQOV BLESSES HIS SONS
And Yaaqov calls to his sons, and says, Gather and I tell you what confronts you in the final days. 2 Gather and hear, you sons of Yaaqov and hearken to Yisra El your father. 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. 28 All these: the twelve scions of Yisra El: and this is it what their father words to them; and he blesses them - every man according to his blessing he blesses them.