14. “Yissasḵar is a strong donkey lying down between two burdens,
15. and he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, and he inclined his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a subject to slave labour.
16. “Dan rightly rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl.
17. “Dan is a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward.
18. “I have waited for your deliverance, O יהוה!
19. “Gaḏ, a raiding band raids him, but he raids its heel.
20. “Bread from Ashĕr is rich, and he gives delicacies of a sovereign.
21. “Naphtali is a deer let loose, he gives words of elegance.
22. “Yosĕph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall.
23. “And the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him.
24. “But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya‛aqoḇ – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ĕl –
25. from the Ěl of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26. “The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the limit of the everlasting hills. They are on the head of Yosĕph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.
27. “Binyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at night he divides the spoil.”