¹ Наконецъ Іаковъ призвалъ сыновъ своихъ и сказалъ: Соберитесь, и я возвјщу вамъ, Что случится съ вами въ грядущіе дни.

² Сойдитесь, и послушайте, сыны Іакова, Послушайте Израиля, отца вашего

³ Рувимъ! ты мой первенецъ, Крјпость моя, и начатокъ силы моей, Верхъ достоинства, и верхъ могущества.

⁴ Но ты бушевалъ, какъ вода, - не будешь высшимъ; Ибо ты взошелъ на ложе отца твоего; Тогда осквернилъ ты постелю мою, На которую взошелъ.

⁵ Симеонъ и Левій братья; Орудія жестокости мечи ихъ.

⁶ Въ тайну ихъ да не внидетъ душа моя, И къ сонмищу ихъ да не пріобщится слава моя. Ибо они во гнјвј своемъ избили мужей; И въ своевольствј своемъ перерјзали жилы тельцевъ.

⁷ Проклятъ гнјвъ ихъ, ибо жестокъ; И ярость ихъ, ибо свирјпа; Раздјлю ихъ во Іаковј, И разсјю ихъ во Израилј.

⁸ Іуда! тебя восхвалятъ братія твои. Рука твоя на хребтј враговъ твоихъ. Поклонятся тебј сыны отца твоего.

⁹ Іуда юный левъ. Ты идешь съ ловитвы, сынъ мой. Онъ преклонился, возлегъ, Какъ левъ, и какъ львица. Кто возбудитъ его?

¹⁰ Не отнимется скипетръ отъ Іуды, И законоположникъ отъ чреслъ его, Пока не придетъ Примиритель, И Ему покорность народовъ.

¹¹ Онъ привязываетъ къ виноградной лозј осленка своего, Омываетъ виномъ одежду свою, И кровію гроздовъ одјяніе свое.

¹² Очи его красны отъ вина, И зубы его бјлы отъ молока.

¹³ Завулонъ при берегахъ моря жить будетъ, И при берегахъ, гдј корабли. И прострется до Сидона.

¹⁴ Иссахаръ оселъ крјпкій, Лежащій между протоками водъ.

¹⁵ Онъ видитъ, что покоище хорошо, И что земля пріятна; И преклоняетъ рамена свои для ношенія бременъ, И работаетъ, чтобы платить дань.

¹⁶ Данъ будетъ судить народъ свой, Подобно другимъ колјнамъ Израилевымъ.

¹⁷ Данъ будетъ змјй на пути, Аспидъ на дорогј, Уязвитъ ногу коня, И всадникъ упадетъ назадъ.

¹⁸ Твоего сиасенія жду я, Іегова!

¹⁹ Гадъ, толпа нападетъ на него, Но онъ отразитъ ее,

²⁰ Отъ Ассира лучшій хлјбъ; онъ будетъ доставлять яства царскія.

²¹ Нефѕалимъ терпентинъ вјтвистый, Распускающій прекрасныя вјтви.

²² Іосифъ отрасль плодоноснаго древа, Отрасль плодоноснаго древа надъ источникомъ; Вјтви его простираются черезъ стјну.

²³ Огорчаютъ его, стрјляютъ въ него, Враждуютъ на него стрјльцы.

²⁴ Но твердъ останется лукъ его. Отъ крјпкаго Бот Іаковлева, - Оттолј пастырь онъ, камень Израиля,

²⁵ Отъ Бога отца твоего, Который и помогаетъ тебј, И отъ Всемогущаго, Который и благословляетъ тебя Благословеніями небесъ свыше, Благословеніями бездны, лежащія долу, Благословеніями сосцевъ и утробы.

²⁶ Благословенія отца твоего превышаютъ благословенія горъ древнихъ и пріятности холмовъ вјчныхъ. Да пріидутъ онј на главу Іосифа И на чело избраннаго между братьями своими!

²⁷ Веніаминъ хищный волкъ, Утромъ будетъ јсть ловитву, И вечеромъ будетъ дјлить добычу.

²⁸ Вотъ всј двјнадцать колјнъ Израильскихъ, и вотъ что сказалъ имъ отецъ ихъ; и благословилъ ихъ, и далъ имъ каждому свое благословеніе.

²⁹ Потомъ далъ имъ приказаніе, и сказалъ имъ: я отхожу къ народу своему; похороните меня съ отцами моими въ пещерј, которая на полј Ефрона Хеттеяннна;

³⁰ въ пещерј, которая на полј, Махпела, что противъ Мамре, въ землј Ханаанской, которое поле Авраамъ купилъ у Ефрона Хеттеянина въ собственность для погребенія.

³¹ Тамъ похоронили Авраама и жену его Сарру; тамъ похоронили Исаака и жену его Реввеку; тамъ похоронилъ я Лію.

³² Это поле съ пещерою, которая на немъ, куплено у сыновъ Хеттеевыхъ.

³³ Окончивъ сіе завјщаніе сынамъ своимъ, Іаковъ положилъ ноги свои на одръ, и испустилъ духъ, и присоединился къ народу своему.

¹ Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

² Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

³ "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

⁴ Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

⁵ "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

⁶ My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

⁸ "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.

⁹ Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

¹² His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

¹³ "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

¹⁴ "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

¹⁵ He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

¹⁶ "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

¹⁷ Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.

¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

¹⁹ "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

²⁰ "Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.

²¹ "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

²² "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

²³ The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

²⁴ But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

²⁵ even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

²⁶ The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

²⁷ "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."

²⁸ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

²⁹ He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

³⁰ in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

³² the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."

³³ When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.