33Deuteronomy 33

1This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed the children of Israel, before his death.Select Deuteronomy 33:1

2And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law.Select Deuteronomy 33:2

3He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.Select Deuteronomy 33:3

4Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob.Select Deuteronomy 33:4

5He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people, being assembled with the tribes of Israel.Select Deuteronomy 33:5

6Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.Select Deuteronomy 33:6

7This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of Juda, and bring him in unto his people: his hands shall fight for him, and he shall be his helper against his enemies.Select Deuteronomy 33:7

8To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction:Select Deuteronomy 33:8

9Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,Select Deuteronomy 33:9

10Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.Select Deuteronomy 33:10

11Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.Select Deuteronomy 33:11

12And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all the day long, and between his shoulders shall be rest.Select Deuteronomy 33:12

13To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth beneath.Select Deuteronomy 33:13

14Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.Select Deuteronomy 33:14

15Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the everlasting hills:Select Deuteronomy 33:15

16And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness thereof. The blessing of him that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.Select Deuteronomy 33:16

17His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.Select Deuteronomy 33:17

18And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going out; and Issachar in thy tabernacles.Select Deuteronomy 33:18

19They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall they sacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the abundance of the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.Select Deuteronomy 33:19

20And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath rested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.Select Deuteronomy 33:20

21And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the teacher was laid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the justices of the Lord, and his judgment with Israel.Select Deuteronomy 33:21

22To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.Select Deuteronomy 33:22

23And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and the south.Select Deuteronomy 33:23

24To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.Select Deuteronomy 33:24

25His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.Select Deuteronomy 33:25

26There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.Select Deuteronomy 33:26

27His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.Select Deuteronomy 33:27

28Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.Select Deuteronomy 33:28

29Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.Select Deuteronomy 33:29