¹ Jokūbas, pasišaukęs savo sūnus, kalbėjo: “Susirinkite! Paskelbsiu jums, kas įvyks su jumis ateityje.

² Susirinkite ir klausykite, Jokūbo sūnūs! Pasiklausykite Izraelio, savo tėvo!

³ ubenai, tu esi mano pirmagimis, mano tvirtybė, mano pajėgumo pradžia, pirmas orumu ir galybe.

⁴ Neramus kaip vanduo! Tu neįsigalėsi, nes įlipai į savo tėvo lovą ir atsiguldamas sutepei mano patalą.

⁵ Simeonas ir Levis­broliai; smurto įrankiai jų namuose.

⁶ Mano siela, neik į jų pasitarimus, nesijunk į jų būrį, mano garbe. Užsirūstinę jie nužudė žmogų ir savivaliaudami sužalojo jaučius.

⁷ Prakeiktas tebūna jų nuožmus įtūžimas ir žiaurus pyktis! Aš juos padalinsiu Jokūbe ir išsklaidysiu Izraelyje.

⁸ Judai, tu susilauksi savo brolių pagarbos, tavo ranka bus ant tavo priešų sprando; tavo tėvo vaikai nusilenks prieš tave.

⁹ Judas­jaunas liūtas. Mano sūnus, kyląs nuo grobio. Jis sustojo, atsigulė kaip liūtas ar kaip liūtė. Kas jį prikels!

¹⁰ Iš Judo nebus atimtas skeptras nė valdžia iš jo palikuonių, kol ateis siųstasis, kuriam paklus tautos.

¹¹ Jis riša prie vynmedžio savo asilaitį ir prie geriausio vynmedžio savo asilės jauniklį; jis plauna vyne savo drabužį ir vynuogių sultyse­apsiaustą.

¹² Jo akys spindės nuo vyno ir dantys bus balti nuo pieno.

¹³ Zabulonas gyvens prie jūros kranto, kur priplaukia laivai; jo žemių ribos sieks Sidoną.

¹⁴ Isacharas yra stiprus asilas, gulįs tarp dviejų nešulių.

¹⁵ Matydamas, kad poilsis geras ir šalis tokia miela, jis palenkė savo petį, kad neštų, ir tapo samdomu bernu.

¹⁶ Danas teis savo tautą, kaip viena iš Izraelio giminių.

¹⁷ Danas bus gyvatė šalia kelio, angis ant tako, gelianti žirgui į kulnis taip, kad jo raitelis nuvirstų atbulas.

¹⁸ Viešpatie, aš laukiu Tavo išgelbėjimo!

¹⁹ Gadas bus užpultas priešų, bet jis vysis juos įkandin, lips jiems ant kulnų.

²⁰ Ašero duona bus soti; jis tieks maistą net karaliams.

²¹ Neftalis­laisvas briedis, jis gražbylys.

²² Juozapas­jaunas vaismedis prie versmės, jo šakos nusvirusios per mūrą.

²³ Šauliai erzino jį, šaudė ir nekentė jo.

²⁴ Jo lankas pasiliko stiprus ir jo rankas sustiprino Jokūbo galingojo Dievo rankos. Iš ten ganytojas ir Izraelio uola.

²⁵ Tavo tėvo Dievas padės tau, Visagalis laimins tave dangaus palaiminimais iš aukštybių, gelmių palaiminimais, esančiais žemai, krūtų ir įsčių palaiminimais.

²⁶ Tavo tėvo palaiminimai pranoko mano protėvių palaiminimus iki amžinųjų kalvų tolimiausių ribų; jie bus ant Juozapo galvos ir ant galvos vainiko to, kuris buvo atskirtas nuo savo brolių.

²⁷ Benjaminas­plėšrus vilkas; rytą jis draskys grobį, o vakare padalins jį”.

²⁸ Tai yra dvylika Izraelio giminių, ir tai jiems kalbėjo tėvas, ir palaimino juos. Kiekvieną palaimino atskiru palaiminimu.

²⁹ Po to jis jiems tarė: “Aš susijungsiu su savo tauta. Palaidokite mane prie mano tėvų oloje, kuri yra hetito Efrono lauke,

³⁰ Machpelos lauko oloje, ties Mamre, Kanaano šalyje. Tą lauką Abraomas nupirko iš hetito Efrono nuosavoms kapinėms.

³¹ Ten palaidotas Abraomas ir jo žmona Sara, Izaokas ir jo žmona ebeka, ten aš palaidojau ir Lėją.

³² Tai laukas ir ola, kurie buvo nupirkti iš Heto vaikų”.

³³ Jokūbas, baigęs duoti nurodymus savo sūnums, įkėlė kojas į lovą, atidavė dvasią ir susijungė su savo tauta.

¹ The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead.

² Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

³ The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

⁴ Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

⁵ She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

⁶ She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, "Hasn't Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, 'Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

⁷ I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.'"

⁸ Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."

⁹ She said, "I will surely go with you: nevertheless, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

¹⁰ Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

¹¹ Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

¹² They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.

¹³ Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.

¹⁴ Deborah said to Barak, "Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn't Yahweh gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

¹⁵ Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

¹⁶ But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.

¹⁷ However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

¹⁸ Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, Turn in to me; don't be afraid." He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

¹⁹ He said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty." She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

²⁰ He said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and inquires of you, and says, 'Is there any man here?' that you shall say, 'No.'"

²¹ Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

²² Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek." He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.

²³ So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

²⁴ The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.