Your holy one - that is, Levi, regarded as the representative of the entire priestly and Levitical stock that descended from him. The contra…

And of Levi.—Next to Joseph, this tribe has the largest share in Moses’ last words, as might naturally be expected, since it was h…

Judah was the royal tribe—it had much to do with warfare. Lord give him power in prayer! This is the distinctive benediction for those who have to …

And of Levi he said. This qualification, or modification of the harsher sentence of Jacob, was introduced not only for the sake of the tri…

And of Levi he said
That is, Moses said of the tribe of Levi, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem:

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The order in which the tribes are blessed here is not the same as is observed elsewhere. The blessing of Judah may refer to the whole tribe in gene…