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25 the God of your father who helps you.
    May God All-Powerful bless you
and give you blessings
    from the sky above and from the deep below.
May he give you blessings
    from breast and womb.
26 My parents had many good things happen to them.
    And I, your father, was blessed even more.
Your brothers left you with nothing.
    But now I pile all my blessings on you,
    as high as a mountain.

Benjamin

27 “Benjamin is like a hungry wolf.
    In the morning he kills and eats.
    In the evening he shares what is left.”

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25 because of your father’s God,(A) who helps(B) you,
    because of the Almighty,[a](C) who blesses you
with blessings of the skies above,
    blessings of the deep springs below,(D)
    blessings of the breast(E) and womb.(F)
26 Your father’s blessings are greater
    than the blessings of the ancient mountains,
    than[b] the bounty of the age-old hills.(G)
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,(H)
    on the brow of the prince among[c] his brothers.(I)

27 “Benjamin(J) is a ravenous wolf;(K)
    in the morning he devours the prey,(L)
    in the evening he divides the plunder.”(M)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:25 Hebrew Shaddai
  2. Genesis 49:26 Or of my progenitors, / as great as
  3. Genesis 49:26 Or of the one separated from