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chapter 33
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This
is the blessing, wherewith the man of God Moses blessed the children of Israel,
before his death.
2 And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir
he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of
saints. In his right hand a fiery law.
3 He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his
hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.
4 Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the
multitude of Jacob.
5 He shall be king with the most right, the princes of
the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel.
6 Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in
number.
7 This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice
of Juda, and bring him in unto his people : his hands shall fight for him, and
he shall be his helper against his enemies.
8 To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy
doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and
judged at the waters of contradiction :
9 Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do
not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they
have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,
10 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they
shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.
11 Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works
of his hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him
rise.
12 And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the
Lord shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all
the day long, and between his shoulders shall be rest.
13 To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord
be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that
lieth beneath.
14 Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the
moon.
15 Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits
of the everlasting hills:
16 And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness
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.
17 His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his
horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to
the ends of the earth These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the
thousands of Manasses.
18 And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy
going out; and Issachar in thy tabernacles.
19 They shall call the people to the mountain: there
shall they sacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the
abundance of the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.
20 And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth:
he hath rested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.
21 And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the
teacher was laid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the
justices of the Lord, and his judgment with Israel.
22 To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall
flow plentifully from Basan.
23 And to Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy
abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the
sea and the south.
24 To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with
children, let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in
oil.
25 His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy
youth, so also shall thy old age be.
26 There is no other God like the God of the rightest:
he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the
clouds run hither and thither.
27 His dwelling is above, and underneath are the
everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say:
Be thou brought to nought.
28 Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of
Jacob in a land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.
29 Blessed are thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O
people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of
thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.
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