Deuteronomy 33:6-23

6“May Reuben live and not die,

Nor may his people be few.”

⁷And this was regarding Judah; so he said:

“Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah,

And bring him to his people.

With his hands he contended for them,

And may You be a help against his adversaries.”

⁸Of Levi he said,

“Let Your Thummim and Your Urim belong to Your godly man,

Whom You tested at Massah,

With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;

9Who said of his father and his mother,

‘I did not consider them’;

And he did not acknowledge his brothers,

Nor did he regard his own sons,

For they kept Your word,

And complied with Your covenant.

10“They will teach Your ordinances to Jacob,

And Your Law to Israel.

They shall put incense before You,

And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

11“Lord, bless his strength,

And accept the work of his hands;

Smash the hips of those who rise up against him,

And those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.”

¹²Of Benjamin he said,

“May the beloved of the Lord live in security beside Him

Who shields him all the day long,

And he lives between His shoulders.”

¹³Of Joseph he said,

“Blessed of the Lord be his land,

With the choice things of heaven, with the dew,

And from the deep waters lying beneath,

14And with the choice yield of the sun,

And the choice produce of the months;

15And with the best things of the ancient mountains,

With the choice things of the everlasting hills,

16And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness,

And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush.

Let it come to the head of Joseph,

And to the top of the head of the one who was prince among his brothers.

17“As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his,

And his horns are the horns of the wild ox;

With them he will gore the peoples

All at once, to the ends of the earth.

And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,

And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”

¹⁸Of Zebulun he said,

“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,

And, Issachar, in your tents.

19“They will call peoples to the mountain;

There they will offer righteous sacrifices;

For they will draw out the abundance of the seas,

And the hidden treasures of the sand.”

²⁰Of Gad he said,

“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;

He lies down as a lion,

And tears the arm, also the crown of the head.

21“Then he selected the choicest part for himself,

For there the ruler’s portion was reserved;

And he came with the leaders of the people;

He executed the justice of the Lord,

And His ordinances with Israel.”

²²Of Dan he said,

“Dan is a lion’s cub;

He leaps out from Bashan.”

²³Of Naphtali he said,

“Naphtali, satisfied with favor,

And full of the blessing of the Lord,

Take possession of the sea and the south.”