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10 They teach your rules and your laws to Jacob's descendants, the Israelites.
They offer incense to you, as a sweet smell.
    They burn offerings on your altar.
11 Lord, please bless their work.
    May everything that they do give you pleasure.
Knock down anyone who attacks them.
    Destroy all their enemies completely.

12 I pray this for the tribe of Benjamin:
The Lord loves the tribe of Benjamin.
    They will live with him and they will be safe.
The Lord protects them all the time.
    He keeps them near to him.

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10 He teaches(A) your precepts to Jacob
    and your law to Israel.(B)
He offers incense before you(C)
    and whole burnt offerings on your altar.(D)
11 Bless all his skills, Lord,
    and be pleased with the work of his hands.(E)
Strike down those who rise against him,
    his foes till they rise no more.”

12 About Benjamin(F) he said:

“Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him,(G)
    for he shields him all day long,(H)
    and the one the Lord loves(I) rests between his shoulders.(J)

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