Deuteronomy 33

¹This is the blessing, wherewith Moyses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

²And he said: Our Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir is he risen to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of Saints. In his right hand a fiery law.

³He hath loved the peoples, all the Saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet shall receive of his doctrine.

⁴Moyses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob.

⁵He shall be king with the most right, the Princes of the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel.

⁶Live Ruben, and die he not, and be he little in number.

⁷This is the blessing of Judas: Hear Lord the voice of Judas, and bring him in unto his people: his hands shall fight for him, and he shall be his helper against his adversaries.

⁸To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in tentation, and judged at the Waters of contradiction.

⁹He that said to his father and to his mother: I know you not; and to his brethren: I know you not: and they knew not their children. These kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,

¹⁰thy judgments, o Jacob, and thy law, o Israel: they shall put incense in thy fury, and holocaust upon thine altar.

¹¹Bless Lord his strength, and receive the works of his hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and they that hate him, let them not rise up.

¹²And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of our Lord shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride-chamber all the day shall he abide, and between his shoulders shall he rest.

¹³To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of our Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and the dew, & the depth lying underneath.

¹⁴Of the pomes of the fruits of the sun and moon,

¹⁵of the tops of the old mountains, of the pomes of the eternal hills:

¹⁶and of the fruits of the earth, and of the fullness thereof. The blessing of him, that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

¹⁷His beauty as of the first born of an oxe, his horns the horns of an unicorn: in them shall he winnow the Nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasses.

¹⁸And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice Zabulon in thy going out, and Issachar in thy tabernacles.

¹⁹They shall call the peoples to the mountain: there shall they immolate the victims of justice. Who shall suck the inundation of the sea as milk, and the hidden treasures of the sands.

²⁰And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in breadth: as a lion hath he rested, and taken the arm and the top of the head.

²¹And he saw his principality, that in his part the doctor was reposed: which was with the princes of the people, and did the justices of our Lord, and his judgment with Israel.

²²To Dan also he said: Dan a lion's whelp, he shall flow largely from Basan.

²³And to Nephthali he said: Nephthali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of our Lord: the sea and the south he shall possess.

²⁴To Aser also he said: Blessed be Aser in children, be he acceptable to his brethren, and dip he in oil his foot.

²⁵His shoe iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also thy old age.

²⁶There is no other God as the God of the rightest: the mounter of heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither,

²⁷his habitation is above, and under the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from thy face, and shall say: Be destroyed.

²⁸Israel shall dwell confidently, and alone. The eye of Jacob in the land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.

²⁹Blessed art thou Israel: who is like to thee, o people that art saved in our Lord, the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory? Thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread their necks.