Common English Bible

Deuteronomy 33:8-15 Common English Bible (CEB)

8. Then he told Levi:"Give your Thummim to Levi,your Urim to your faithful one—the one you tested at Massah,the one you challenged by Meribah’s waters;

9. the one who said of his own mother and father:‘I don’t consider them as such’;of their siblings: ‘I don’t recognize them’;of their own children, ‘I don’t know them’—but who obeyed your wordsand who guarded your covenant!

10. They teach your case laws to Jacob,your Instruction to Israel.They hold sweet incense to your nose;put the entirely burned offering on your altar.

11. I pray that the Lord blesses Levi’s strength,favors his hard work,and crushes the insides of his enemiesso that those who hate him can’t fight anymore."

12. He said to Benjamin:"The Lord’s dearest onerests safely on him.The Lord always shields him;he rests on God’s chest."

13. Then he told Joseph:"I pray that his land is blessed by God:with heaven’s gifts from above,with the deep waters stretching out underneath;

14. with the gifts produced by the sun,with the gifts generated by the moon;

15. with the best fruit from ancient mountains,with the gifts of eternal hills;