DE-33:1 And this [is] the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of
God blessed
the children of Israel before his death.
DE-33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from
Seir unto
them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten
thousands of
saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.
DE-33:3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints [are] in thy
hand: and they
sat down at thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words.
DE-33:4 Moses commanded us a law, [even] the inheritance of the
congregation
of Jacob.
DE-33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the
people [and] the
tribes of Israel were gathered together.
DE-33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be
few.
DE-33:7 And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear,
LORD, the
voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be
sufficient for
him; and be thou an help [to him] from his enemies.
DE-33:8 And of Levi he said, [Let] thy Thummim and thy Urim
[be] with thy
holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, [and with] whom thou
didst strive
at the waters of Meribah;
DE-33:9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not
seen him;
neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own
children: for they
have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
DE-33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy
law: they shall
put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine
altar.
DE-33:11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his
hands: smite
through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them
that hate him,
that they rise not again.
DE-33:12 [And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD
shall dwell in
safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day long,
and he shall
dwell between his shoulders.
DE-33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his
land, for the
precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that
coucheth
beneath,
DE-33:14 And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun,
and for the
precious things put forth by the moon,
DE-33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and
for the
precious things of the lasting hills,
DE-33:16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness
thereof, and
[for] the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let [the
blessing] come
upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him
[that was]
separated from his brethren.
DE-33:17 His glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock, and
his horns [are
like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people
together to
the ends of the earth: and they [are] the ten thousands of
Ephraim, and they
[are] the thousands of Manasseh.
DE-33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going
out; and,
Issachar, in thy tents.
DE-33:19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there
they shall offer
sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck [of] the
abundance of the
seas, and [of] treasures hid in the sand.
DE-33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed [be] he that enlargeth Gad;
he dwelleth
as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
DE-33:21 And he provided the first part for himself, because
there, [in] a
portion of the lawgiver, [was he] seated; and he came with the
heads of the
people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments
with Israel.
DE-33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a lion's whelp: he shall
leap from
Bashan.
DE-33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with
favour, and full
with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the
south.
DE-33:24 And of Asher he said, [Let] Asher [be] blessed with
children; let
him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in
oil.
DE-33:25 Thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass; and as thy days,
[so shall] thy
strength [be].
DE-33:26 [There is] none like unto the God of Jeshurun, [who]
rideth upon the
heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
DE-33:27 The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are]
the
everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before
thee; and
shall say, Destroy [them].
DE-33:28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain
of Jacob
[shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall
drop down dew.
DE-33:29 Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O
people saved
by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of
thy excellency!
and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt
tread upon
their high places.
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