1. This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.
2. He said:The Lord came from Sinaiand revealed himself to Israel from Seir.He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran,and came forth with ten thousand holy ones.With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.
3. Surely he loves the people;all your holy ones are in your power.And they sit at your feet,each receiving your words.
4. Moses delivered to us a law,an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
5. The Lord was king over Jeshurun,when the leaders of the people assembled,the tribes of Israel together.
6. May Reuben live and not die,and may his people multiply.
7. And this is the blessing to Judah. He said,Listen, O Lord, to Judah’s voice,and bring him to his people.May his power be great,and may you help him against his foes.
8. Of Levi he said:Your Thummim and Urim belong to your godly one,whose authority you challenged at Massah,and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah.
9. He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,”and he did not acknowledge his own brothersor know his own children,for they kept your word,and guarded your covenant.
10. They will teach Jacob your ordinancesand Israel your law;they will offer incense as a pleasant odor, and a whole offering on your altar.
11. Bless, O Lord, his goods,and be pleased with his efforts;undercut the legs of any who attack him,and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.
12. Of Benjamin he said:The beloved of the Lord will live safely by him;he protects him all the time, and the Lord places him on his chest.
13. Of Joseph he said:May the Lord bless his landwith the harvest produced by the sky, by the dew,and by the depths crouching beneath;
14. with the harvest produced by the daylightand by the moonlight;
15. with the best of the ancient mountainsand the harvest produced by the age-old hills;
16. with the harvest of the earth and its fullnessand the pleasure of him who resided in the burning bush.May blessing rest on Joseph’s head,and on the top of the head of the one set apart from his brothers.
17. May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor,and may his horns be those of a wild ox;with them may he gore all peoples,all the far reaches of the earth.They are the ten thousands of Ephraim,and they are the thousands of Manasseh.