And Iakob called his sons, and said to them: "Gather together that I may tell you what will happen to you in the last days.
Assemble and hear me, sons of Iakob. Hear your father IsraƩl.
Rouben, you [are] my firstborn, my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, harsh, [and] self-pleasing.
You became wanton like water. Do not boil over, for you went up upon the bed of your father. Then you defiled the couch, where you went up.
Symeon and Levi [are the] brothers [who] perpetrated injustice by their choice.
May my soul not come into their council, and let not my inward parts press in on their company, for in their wrath they killed humans, and in their desire they hamstrung a bull.
Cursed be their wrath, for it was self-pleasing, and their anger, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Iakob, and scatter them in IsraƩl.
Iouda: May your brothers praise you. Be your hands on the back of your enemies. Your father's sons shall do obeisance to you.
A lion's whelp you are, Iouda. From a shoot, my son, you went up. In reclining, you slept like a lion. And as a whelp, who will rouse him?
A ruler shall not fail from out of Iouda, nor a chief from his thighs, until that [being] stored up for him comes. And he is the expectation of nations.
Binding his foal to [a] vine, and the foal of his donkey to the tendril [of it], he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of a bunch of grapes.
His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
Zaboulon shall settle by the sea, and he [shall be] near a haven of ships, and shall extend as far as Sidon.
Issachar desired the good, resting between the inheritances.
And seeing the resting place, that it was good, and the land, that it was rich, he subjected his shoulder to labor, and became a farmer.
Dan shall judge his own people, as also one tribe in IsraƩl.
And let Dan become a serpent in the way, besetting the path, biting the heel of [a] horse, and the rider shall fall backwards,
awaiting the deliverance of the lord.
Gad: [A] raider gang shall raid him, but he shall raid close on their heels.
Aser: His bread [is] fat, and he shall give luxuriousness to rulers.
NephthaleĆm is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty by the produce.
Ioseph is an increased son. My zealous son is increased. My youngest son, return to me.
One at whom, while deliberating, they would rail, and masters of arrows would have it in for him.
But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened through the hand of the mighty one of Iakob. Thenceforward he is the [one who] strengthened IsraƩl from the Theos of your father.
And my Theos helped you, and he blessed you with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth containing all [things], because of [the] blessing of [the] breasts and of [the] womb.
[The] blessing of your father and your mother, it has prevailed above the blessing of the stable mountains, and above the blessings of the ever-flowing dunes. They shall be upon the head of Ioseph, and upon the crown of the brothers of whom he led.
Beniamin [is a] ravening wolf: In the early morning he shall still be devouring, and at evening he shall distribute food.
All these [are] the twelve sons of Iakob. And this their father spoke to them, and he blessed them. Each one according to his blessing, he blessed them.
And he said to them: "I am [about to be] added to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave which is in the field of Ephron the Chettaion,
in the double cave which is opposite Mambre, in [the] land of ChanaƔn, the cave which AbraƔm acquired from Ephron the Chettaion in acquisition of a sepulchre.
There they buried there AbraƔm and his wife Sarra. And there they buried IsaƔk and his wife Rebekka. And there they buried Leia,
in the acquisition of the field, and of the cave that is in it, from the sons of Chet.
And Iakob ceased giving charges to his sons. And lifted his feet onto the bed, he breathed his last, and he was added to his people.