¹ 雅各叫了他的兒子們來，說：你們都來聚集，我好把你們日後必遇的事告訴你們。

² 雅各的兒子們，你們要聚集而聽，要聽你們父親以色列的話。

³ 流便哪，你是我的長子，是我力量強壯的時候生的，本當大有尊榮，權力超眾。

⁴ 但你放縱情慾，滾沸如水，必不得居首位；因為你上了你父親的床，污穢了我的榻。

⁵ 西緬和利未是弟兄；他們的刀劍是殘忍的器具。

⁶ 我的靈阿，不要與他們同謀；我的心哪，不要與他們聯絡；因為他們趁怒殺害人命，任意砍斷牛腿大筋。

⁷ 他們的怒氣暴烈可咒；他們的忿恨殘忍可詛。我要使他們分居在雅各家裡，散住在以色列地中。

⁸ 猶大阿，你弟兄們必讚美你；你手必掐住仇敵的頸項；你父親的兒子們必向你下拜。

⁹ 猶大是個小獅子；我兒阿，你抓了食便上去。你屈下身去，臥如公獅，蹲如母獅，誰敢惹你？

¹⁰ 圭必不離猶大，杖必不離他兩腳之間，直等細羅(就是賜平安者)來到，萬民都必歸順。

¹¹ 猶大把小驢拴在葡萄樹上，把驢駒拴在美好的葡萄樹上。他在葡萄酒中洗了衣服，在葡萄汁中洗了袍褂。

¹² 他的眼睛必因酒紅潤；他的牙齒必因奶白亮。

¹³ 西布倫必住在海口，必成為停船的海口；他的境界必延到西頓。

¹⁴ 以薩迦是個強壯的驢，臥在羊圈之中。

¹⁵ 他以安靜為佳，以肥地為美，便低肩背重，成為服苦的僕人。

¹⁶ 但必判斷他的民，作以色列支派之一。

¹⁷ 但必作道上的蛇，路中的虺，咬傷馬蹄，使騎馬的墜落於後。

¹⁸ 耶和華阿，我向來等候你的救恩。

¹⁹ 迦得必被敵軍追逼，他卻要追逼他們的腳跟。

²⁰ 亞設之地必出肥美的糧食，且出君王的美味。

²¹ 拿弗他利是被釋放的母鹿；他出嘉美的言語。

²² 約瑟是多結果子的樹枝，是泉旁多結果的枝子；他的枝條探出牆外。

²³ 弓箭手將他苦害，向他射箭，逼迫他。

²⁴ 但他的弓仍舊堅硬；他的手健壯敏捷。這是因以色列的牧者，以色列的磐石─就是雅各的大能者。

²⁵ 你父親的神必幫助你；那全能者必將天上所有的福，地裡所藏的福，以及生產乳養的福，都賜給你。

²⁶ 你父親所祝的福，勝過我祖先所祝的福，如永世的山嶺，至極的邊界；這些福必降在約瑟的頭上，臨到那與弟兄迥別之人的頂上。

²⁷ 便雅憫是個撕掠的狼，早晨要吃他所抓的，晚上要分他所奪的。

²⁸ 這一切是以色列的十二支派；這也是他們的父親對他們所說的話，為他們所祝的福，都是按著各人的福分為他們祝福。

²⁹ 他又囑咐他們說：我將要歸到我列祖(原文作本民)那裡，你們要將我葬在赫人以弗崙田間的洞裡，與我祖我父在一處，

³⁰ 就是在迦南地幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞；那洞和田是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買來為業，作墳地的。

³¹ 他們在那裡葬了亞伯拉罕和他妻撒拉，又在那裡葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加；我也在那裡葬了利亞。

³² 那塊田和田間的洞原是向赫人買的。

³³ 雅各囑咐眾子已畢，就把腳收在床上，氣絕而死，歸到列祖(原文作本民)那裡去了。

¹ Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

² Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

³ Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

⁴ "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

⁵ The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

⁶ "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."

⁷ Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

⁸ He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

⁹ that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

¹⁰ Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

¹¹ "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

¹² Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

¹³ He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

¹⁴ Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

¹⁵ "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

¹⁶ Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

¹⁷ So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

¹⁸ to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

¹⁹ After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

²⁰ The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.