Genesis 49:25-27
New International Reader's Version
25 Joseph, your father’s God helps you.
The Mighty God blesses you.
He gives you blessings from the sky above.
He gives you blessings from the deep springs below.
He blesses you with children and with a mother’s milk.
26 Your father’s blessings are great.
They are greater than the blessings from the age-old mountains.
They are greater than the gifts from the ancient hills.
Let all those blessings rest on the head of Joseph.
Let them rest on the head of the one who is prince among his brothers.
27 “Benjamin is a hungry wolf.
In the morning he eats what he has killed.
In the evening he shares what he has stolen.”
Genesis 49:25-27
New King James Version
25 (A)By the God of your father who will help you,
(B)And by the Almighty (C)who will bless you
With blessings of heaven above,
Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26 The blessings of your father
Have excelled the blessings of my ancestors,
(D)Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.
(E)They shall be on the head of Joseph,
And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
27 “Benjamin is a (F)ravenous wolf;
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
(G)And at night he shall divide the spoil.”
Genesis 49:25-27
English Standard Version
25 (A)by the God of your father who will help you,
by (B)the Almighty[a] (C)who will bless you
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that crouches beneath,
blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26 The blessings of your father
are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents,
up to the bounties (D)of the everlasting hills.[b]
May they be (E)on the head of Joseph,
and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
27 (F)“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,
in the morning devouring the prey
and at evening (G)dividing the spoil.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 49:25 Hebrew Shaddai
- Genesis 49:26 A slight emendation yields (compare Septuagint) the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills
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