Deuteronomy 33:6–25

^6h“Let Reuben live, and not die,

but let his men be few.”

⁷And this he said of Judah:

“Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah,

and bring him in to his people.

With your hands contend⁷ for him,

and be a help against his adversaries.”

⁸And ⁱof Levi he said,

“Give to Levi^{8 j}your Thummim,

and your Urim to your godly one,

^kwhom you tested at Massah,

with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;

⁹who said of his father and mother,

‘I regard them not’;

^lhe disowned his brothers

and ignored his children.

For ^mthey observed your word

and kept your covenant.

¹⁰ⁿThey shall teach Jacob your rules

and Israel your law;

^othey shall put incense before you

and ^pwhole burnt offerings on your altar.

¹¹Bless, O Lord, his substance,

and ^qaccept the work of his hands;

crush the loins of his adversaries,

of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”

^12rOf Benjamin he said,

“The beloved of the Lord dwells in safety.

The High God⁹ surrounds him all day long,

and dwells between his shoulders.”

¹³And ^sof Joseph he said,

^t“Blessed by the Lord be his land,

with the choicest gifts of heaven ^uabove,¹⁰

and of the deep that crouches beneath,

¹⁴with the choicest fruits of the sun

and the rich yield of the months,

¹⁵with the finest produce of the ancient mountains

and the abundance of ^vthe everlasting hills,

¹⁶with the best gifts of the earth and ^wits fullness

and the favor of ^xhim who dwells in the bush.

May these rest on the head of Joseph,

on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.

^17yA firstborn bull¹¹—he has majesty,

and his horns are the horns of a ^zwild ox;

with them ^ahe shall gore the peoples,

all of them, to the ends of the earth;

^bthey are the ten thousands of Ephraim,

and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

¹⁸And of Zebulun he said,

^c“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,

and Issachar, in your tents.

¹⁹They shall call peoples ^dto their mountain;

there they offer ^eright sacrifices;

for they draw from the abundance of the seas

and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

²⁰And ^fof Gad he said,

“Blessed be he who enlarges Gad!

Gad crouches ^glike a lion;

he tears off arm and scalp.

^21hHe chose the best of the land for himself,

for there a commander’s portion was reserved;

and ⁱhe came with the heads of the people,

with Israel he executed the justice of the Lord,

and his judgments for Israel.”

²²And ^jof Dan he said,

^k“Dan is a lion’s cub

^lthat leaps from Bashan.”

²³And ^mof Naphtali he said,

“O Naphtali, sated with favor,

and full of the blessing of the Lord,

ⁿpossess the lake¹² and the south.”

²⁴And ^oof Asher he said,

“Most blessed of sons be Asher;

let him be the favorite of his brothers,

and let him ^pdip his foot in oil.

²⁵Your bars shall be iron and bronze,

and as your days, so shall your strength be.