Ruben shall live and shall not die: but
his people shall be few in number. This is the blessing of Iuda.
And he said: hear LORD the voice of Iuda and bring him unto his
people: let his hands fight for him: but be thou his help against
his enemies. And unto Levi he said: thy perfectness and thy light
be after thy merciful man whom thou temptest at Masa and with whom
thou strivedest at the waters of strife. He that sayeth unto his
father and mother: I saw him not, and unto his brethren I knew
not, and to his son I wot not: for they have observed thy words
and kept thy testament. They shall teach Iacob thy judgements and
Israel thy laws. They shall put cense before thy nose and whole
sacrifices upon thine altar. Bless LORD their power and accept the
works of their hands: smite the backs of them that rise against
them and of them that hate them: that they rise not again. Unto
Ben Iamin he said: The LORD's darling shall dwell in safety by him
and keep himself in the haven by him continually, and shall dwell
between his shoulders. And unto Ioseph he said: blessed of the
LORD is his land with the goodly fruits of heaven, with dew and
with springs that lie beneath: and with fruits of the increase of
the son and with ripe fruit of the months, and with the tops of
mountains that were from the beginning and with the dainties of
hills that last ever, and with goodly fruit of the earth and of
the fulness thereof.
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