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Moses commanded a law for us
as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

The Lord was King in Jeshurun,[a]
when the heads of the people gathered
together with the tribes of Israel.

May Reuben live and not die,
but may his men be few in number.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:5 Jeshurun is another name for Israel. It means the Upright One.
  2. Deuteronomy 33:6 Or nor let his men be few. This translation in the footnote applies the negative from the first line of the parallelism also to the second line, a phenomenon not too uncommon in Hebrew poetry.