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Deuteronomy
33
This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God Moses
blessed the children of Israel, before his death.
And 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.
He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his
hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive
of his doctrine.
Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude
of Jacob.
He shall be king with the most right, the princes of
the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel.
Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.
This 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.
To 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 :
Who 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,
Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they
shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy
altar.
Bless, 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.
And 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.
To 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.
Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.
Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits
of the everlasting hills:
And 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.
His 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.
And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going
out; and Issachar in thy tabernacles.
They 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.
And 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.
And 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.
To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow
plentifully from Basan.
And 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.
To 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.
His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy
youth, so also shall thy old age be.
There 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.
His 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.
Israel 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.
Blessed are 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. |
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