The Koine Bible

And this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the sons of Israel before his death.

And the Lord said: He has come from Sinai and has shone forth to us from Seir and has hastened from Mount Paran with myriads of Kadesh; from his right are angels with him

And he spared his people, and all the sanctified ones are under your hands, and these are under you, and he received from his words

a law that Moses commanded us, an inheritance for the assemblies of Jacob

And he shall be in the beloved one, ruler, when rulers of peoples were gathered together, with the tribes of Israel

Let Reuben live and not die, and let him be many in number.

And this is for Judah: hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, and let his hands come in unto his people; let them discern for him, and you shall be a helper from his enemies.

And to Levi he said, Give to Levi his clear things and his truth to the holy man whom they tested at testing; they reviled him at the waters of contradiction.

who says to his father and to his mother, I have not seen you, and he did not acknowledge his brothers, and he did not know his sons; he kept your sayings and preserved your covenant

They shall declare your ordinances to Jacob and your law to Israel; they shall put incense in your wrath continually upon your altar.

Bless, O Lord, his strength, and accept the works of his hands; crush the loins of those rising up as enemies against him, and let those who hate him not rise up.

And to Benjamin he said: Beloved by the Lord, he shall dwell securely, and God shadows over him all the days, and between his shoulders he rested.

And to Joseph he said: From the blessing of the Lord be his land, from the hours of heaven, and from dew, and from the deep springs beneath,

and according to the season of the produce of the sun, and of the turnings, and from the gatherings of months

and from the top of mountains of old, and from the top of ancient hills

and at the season of the fullness of the earth and the acceptable things of him who appeared in the bush may they come upon the head of Joseph and upon the crown of the one glorified among his brothers

His firstborn bull, his beauty; his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he will gore the nations together, even to the ends of the earth; these are the myriads of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh.

And to Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar in his tents.

They will destroy nations, and there you shall call upon, and you shall sacrifice a sacrifice of righteousness, because the wealth of the sea will nurse you, and the merchandise of those dwelling by the shore.

And to Gad he said: Blessed is he who enlarges Gad; he has rested as a lion, having crushed the arm and the ruler.

And he saw his firstfruits, that there a land was apportioned, of rulers gathered together, together with leaders of peoples; the Lord did righteousness, and his judgment with Israel.

And to Dan he said: Dan is a lion’s whelp, and he will leap forth from Bashan

And to Naphtali he said: Naphtali, fullness of favors, and let him be filled with blessing from the Lord; sea and south he shall inherit.

And to Asher he said: Blessed among the sons of Asher; and he shall be acceptable to his brothers; he shall dip his foot in oil.

Iron and bronze shall be his shoe, and as your days, so shall your strength be.

There is none like the God of the beloved, who rides upon the heaven as your helper, and the majestic one of the firmament

and a covering of God, of beginning, and beneath everlasting arms, and he will cast out the enemy from your presence, saying, Be destroyed

And Israel shall dwell securely alone; the fountain of Jacob upon grain and wine, and his heaven shall be clouded with dew.

Blessed are you, Israel; who is like you, a people being saved by the Lord? He will shield you, your helper, and your sword will be your boast, and your enemies will lie to you, and you will tread upon their necks.