Deuteronomy 33

And this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the sons of Israel before his death.

And he said: The Lord has come from Sinai and has appeared to us from Seir, and has hastened from Mount Paran with the ten thousands of Kadesh; at his right hand were angels with him.

And he spared his people; and all the sanctified ones are under your hands, and these are under you, and he received of his words,

the law which Moses commanded us, an inheritance for the assemblies of Jacob.

And there shall be a ruler among the beloved, when the rulers of the peoples were gathered together with the tribes of Israel.

Let Reuben live and not die, and let him be many in number.

And this for Judah: Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, and may he come to his people. His hands will contend for him, and may you be a helper against his enemies.

And to Levi he said: Give to Levi his manifestations and his truth, to the holy man whom they tested in testing, whom they reviled at the water of contention.

He who says to his father and to his mother: I have not seen you; and he did not acknowledge his brothers and disowned his own sons. He kept your oracles and observed your covenant.

They shall declare your ordinances to Jacob and your law to Israel; they shall place incense in your anger continually upon your altar.

Bless, O Lord, his strength, and accept the works of his hands. Break the loins of the enemies who rise up against him, and let those who hate him not rise again.

And to Benjamin he said: Beloved by the Lord, he shall dwell in safety; and God overshadows him all the days, and he rests between his shoulders.

And to Joseph he said: From the blessing of the Lord is his land, from the seasons of heaven and dew, and from the deeps of springs below,

and according to the season of the produce of the sun's turnings, and from the conjunctions of months,

and from the summit of the primeval mountains, and from the summit of the everlasting hills,

and according to the season of the earth's fullness. And may the things acceptable to him who appeared in the bush come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of him who was glorified among his brothers.

His beauty is that of a firstborn of a bull, and his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall gore the nations together, as far as the end of the earth. These are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasse.

And to Zaboulon he said: Rejoice, Zaboulon, in your going out, and Issachar, in his tents.

They shall utterly destroy nations, and there you shall call upon him, and you shall offer a sacrifice of righteousness; for the wealth of the sea shall suckle you, and so shall the trading posts of those who dwell along the coast.

And to Gad he said: Blessed is he who enlarges Gad; like a lion he has settled down, having crushed arm and ruler.

And he saw his firstfruits, that there the land of rulers was apportioned, they being gathered together with the chiefs of the peoples. The Lord did righteousness, and his judgment with Israel.

And to Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, and he shall leap forth out of Basan.

And to Nephthali he said: Nephthali is a fullness of acceptable things; and let him be filled with blessing from the Lord; he shall inherit the sea and the southwest.

And to Aser he said: Aser is blessed among children, and he shall be acceptable to his brothers; he shall dip his foot in oil.

Iron and bronze shall be his sandal, and as your days, so shall your strength be.

There is none like the God of the beloved one, who rides upon heaven as your helper, and the majestic one of the firmament.

And the shelter of the God of the beginning, and under the strength of everlasting arms; and he shall cast out the enemy from before you, saying: May you perish!

And Israel shall encamp in confidence, alone, upon the land of Iakob, with grain and wine; and the sky above him is clouded with dew.

Blessed are you, Israel; who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? Your helper shall shield you, and the sword is your boast; and your enemies shall deal falsely with you, and you shall tread upon their neck.