21. Naphtali is a free running doe,he speaks delightful words.
22. Joseph is a fruitful bough,a fruitful bough near a springwhose branches climb over the wall.
23. The archers will attack him,they will shoot at him and oppose him.
24. But his bow will remain steady,and his hands will be skillful;because of the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
25. because of the God of your father, who will help you,because of the sovereign God, who will bless youwith blessings from the sky above,blessings from the deep that lies below,and blessings of the breasts and womb.
26. The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountainsor the desirable things of the age-old hills.They will be on the head of Josephand on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
27. Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;in the morning devouring the prey,and in the evening dividing the plunder.”
28. These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.
29. Then he instructed them, “I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
30. It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
31. There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.
32. The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”
33. When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.