19. Bandits shall attack Gad, but he shall attack their heels.
20. Asher’s food is delicious, and he shall provide from the king’s delicacies.
21. Naphtali is a doe running free that puts forth beautiful words.
22. Joseph is the bough of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough by a spring. His branches climb over the wall.
23. The archers fiercely attacked him. They shot arrows at him and were hostile to him.
24. But his bow remained in a steady position; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there is the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.
25. Because of the God of your father he will help you and by Shaddai he will bless you with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb.
26. The blessings of your father are superior to the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the forehead of the prince of his brothers.
27. Benjamin is a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening.
28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing.
29. Then he instructed them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30. in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah that is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah—
32. the purchase of the field and the cave which was in it from the Hittites.”
33. When Jacob finished instructing his sons he drew his feet up to the bed. Then he took his last breath and was gathered to his people.