¹ And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death,

² and he saith: --`Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And hath risen from Seir for them; He hath shone from mount Paran, And hath come with myriads of holy ones; At His right hand are springs for them.

³ Also He is loving the peoples; All His holy ones are in thy hand, And they--they sat down at thy foot, Each He lifteth up at thy words.

⁴ A law hath Moses commanded us, A possession of the assembly of Jacob.

⁵ And he is in Jeshurun king, In the heads of the people gathering together, The tribes of Israel!

⁶ Let Reuben live, and not die, And let his men be a number.

⁷ And this is for Judah; and he saith: --Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And unto his people do Thou bring him in; His hand hath striven for him, And an help from his adversaries art Thou.

⁸ And of Levi he said: --Thy Thummim and thy Urim are for thy pious one, Whom Thou hast tried in Massah, Thou dost strive with Him at the waters of Meribah;

⁹ Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep.

¹⁰ They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.

¹¹ Bless, O Jehovah, his strength, And the work of his hands Thou acceptest, Smite the loins of his withstanders, And of those hating him--that they rise not!

¹² Of Benjamin he said: --The beloved of Jehovah doth tabernacle confidently by him, Covering him over all the day; Yea, between his shoulders He doth tabernacle.

¹³ And of Joseph he said: --Blessed of Jehovah is his land, By precious things of the heavens, By dew, and by the deep crouching beneath,

¹⁴ And by precious things--fruits of the sun, And by precious things--cast forth by the moons,

¹⁵ And by chief things--of the ancient mountains, And by precious things--of the age-during heights,

¹⁶ And by precious things--of earth and its fulness, And the good pleasure Of Him who is dwelling in the bush, --Let it come for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of him Who is separate from his brethren.

¹⁷ His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.

¹⁸ And of Zebulun he said: --Rejoice, O Zebulun, in thy going out, And, O Issachar, in thy tents;

¹⁹ Peoples to the mountain they call, There they sacrifice righteous sacrifices; For the abundance of the seas they suck, And hidden things hidden in the sand.

²⁰ And of Gad he said: --Blessed of the Enlarger is Gad, As a lioness he doth tabernacle, And hath torn the arm--also the crown!

²¹ And he provideth the first part for himself, For there the portion of the lawgiver is covered, And he cometh with the heads of the people; The righteousness of Jehovah he hath done, And His judgments with Israel.

²² And of Dan he said: --Dan is a lion's whelp; he doth leap from Bashan.

²³ And of Naphtali he said: --O Naphtali, satisfied with pleasure, And full of the blessing of Jehovah, West and south possess thou.

²⁴ And of Asher he said: --Blessed with sons is Asher, Let him be accepted by his brethren, And dipping in oil his foot.

²⁵ Iron and brass are thy shoes, And as thy days--thy strength.

²⁶ There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Riding the heavens in thy help, And in His excellency the skies.

²⁷ A habitation is the eternal God, And beneath are arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!'

²⁸ And Israel doth tabernacle in confidence alone; The eye of Jacob is unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew.

²⁹ O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who is the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'