² Assemble yourselves and listen, sons of Jacob;
        listen to Israel your father.
³ Reuben, you are my oldest son,
    my strength and my first contender,^[a]
    superior in status and superior in might.
⁴ As wild as the waters, you won’t endure,
    for you went up to your father’s bed,
    you went up^[b] and violated my couch.

²² Joseph is a young bull,^[a]
        a young bull by a spring,
        who strides with oxen.^[b]
23 They attacked him fiercely and fired arrows;
        the archers attacked him furiously.
²⁴ But his bow stayed strong,
        and his forearms were nimble,^[c]
            by the hands of the strong one of Jacob,
            by the name of the shepherd, the rock of Israel,
²⁵                 by God, your father, who supports you,
            by the Almighty^[d] who blesses you
                with blessings from the skies above
                and blessings from the deep sea below,
                blessings from breasts and womb.
²⁶ The blessings of your father exceed
            the blessings of the eternal mountains,^[e]
            the wealth of the everlasting hills.
        May they all rest on Joseph’s head,
            on the forehead of the one set apart from his brothers.