⁵ 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,
12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
⁶ 12,000 from the tribe of Asher,
12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,
12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
⁷ 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,
12,000 from the tribe of Levi,
12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
⁸ 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,
12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,
12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.

^(B)“The Lord came from Sinai
    and dawned from Seir upon us;^[a]
    he shone forth from Mount Paran;
he came ^(C)from the ten thousands of holy ones,
    with flaming fire^[b] at his right hand.
³ Yes, ^(D)he loved his people,^{[c]
    (E)}all his holy ones were in his^[d] hand;
^(F)so they followed^[e] in your steps,
    receiving direction from you,
⁴ when ^(G)Moses commanded us a law,
    as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
⁵ Thus the Lord^{[f] (H)}became king in ^(I)Jeshurun,
    when the heads of the people were gathered,
    all the tribes of Israel together.

^6 (J)“Let Reuben live, and not die,
    but let his men be few.”

“Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah,
    and bring him in to his people.
With your hands contend^[g] for him,
    and be a help against his adversaries.”

“Give to Levi^{[h] (L)}your Thummim,
    and your Urim to your godly one,
^(M)whom you tested at Massah,
    with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;
⁹ who said of his father and mother,
    ‘I regard them not’;
^(N)he disowned his brothers
    and ignored his children.
For ^(O)they observed your word
    and kept your covenant.
^10 (P)They shall teach Jacob your rules
    and Israel your law;
^(Q)they shall put incense before you
    and ^(R)whole burnt offerings on your altar.
¹¹ Bless, O Lord, his substance,
    and ^(S)accept the work of his hands;
crush the loins of his adversaries,
    of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”

“The beloved of the Lord dwells in safety.
The High God^[i] surrounds him all day long,
    and dwells between his shoulders.”

^(V)“Blessed by the Lord be his land,
    with the choicest gifts of heaven ^(W)above,^[j]
    and of the deep that crouches beneath,
¹⁴ with the choicest fruits of the sun
    and the rich yield of the months,
¹⁵ with the finest produce of the ancient mountains
    and the abundance of ^(X)the everlasting hills,
¹⁶ with the best gifts of the earth and ^(Y)its fullness
    and the favor of ^(Z)him who dwells in the bush.
May these rest on the head of Joseph,
    on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
^17 (AA)A firstborn bull^[k]—he has majesty,
    and his horns are the horns of a ^(AB)wild ox;
with them ^(AC)he shall gore the peoples,
    all of them, to the ends of the earth;
^(AD)they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
    and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

^(AE)“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
    and Issachar, in your tents.
¹⁹ They shall call peoples ^(AF)to their mountain;
    there they offer ^(AG)right sacrifices;
for they draw from the abundance of the seas
    and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

“Blessed be he who enlarges Gad!
    Gad crouches ^(AI)like a lion;
    he tears off arm and scalp.
^21 (AJ)He chose the best of the land for himself,
    for there a commander's portion was reserved;
and ^(AK)he came with the heads of the people,
    with Israel he executed the justice of the Lord,
    and his judgments for Israel.”

^(AM)“Dan is a lion's cub
    ^(AN)that leaps from Bashan.”

“O Naphtali, sated with favor,
    and full of the blessing of the Lord,
    ^(AP)possess the lake^[l] and the south.”

“Most blessed of sons be Asher;
    let him be the favorite of his brothers,
    and let him ^(AR)dip his foot in oil.
²⁵ Your bars shall be iron and bronze,
    and as your days, so shall your strength be.

^26 (AS)“There is none like God, O ^(AT)Jeshurun,
    ^(AU)who rides through the heavens to your help,
    through the skies in his majesty.
²⁷ The eternal God is your ^(AV)dwelling place,^[m]
    and underneath are the everlasting arms.^[n]
And he thrust out the enemy before you
    and said, ‘Destroy.’
²⁸ So Israel lived in safety,
    ^(AW)Jacob lived ^(AX)alone,^[o]
in a land of grain and wine,
    whose heavens drop down dew.
²⁹ Happy are you, O Israel! ^(AY)Who is like you,
    a people ^(AZ)saved by the Lord,
^(BA)the shield of your help,
    and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
    and you shall tread upon their backs.”

² “Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob,
    listen to Israel your father.

³ “Reuben, you are ^(C)my firstborn,
    my might, and the ^(D)firstfruits of my strength,
    preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
⁴ Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
    because you ^(E)went up to your father's bed;
    then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!

^5 (F)“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons ^(G)of violence are their swords.
⁶ Let my soul come not into their council;
    ^(H)O my glory, ^(I)be not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
    and in their willfulness they ^(J)hamstrung oxen.
⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce,
    and their wrath, for it is cruel!
I will ^(K)divide them in Jacob
    and scatter them in Israel.

⁸ “Judah, ^(L)your brothers shall praise you;
    ^(M)your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
    ^(N)your father's sons shall bow down before you.
⁹ Judah is ^(O)a lion's cub;
    from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
^(P)He stooped down; he crouched as a lion
    and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
¹⁰ The ^(Q)scepter shall not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler's staff ^(R)from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;^[a]
    and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine
    and his donkey's colt to the choice vine,
he has washed his garments in wine
    and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
¹² His ^(S)eyes are darker than wine,
    and his teeth whiter than milk.

^13 (T)“Zebulun shall dwell at the ^(U)shore of the sea;
    he shall become a haven for ships,
    and his border shall be at Sidon.

^14 (V)“Issachar is a strong donkey,
    crouching between the sheepfolds.^[b]
15 He saw that a resting place was good,
    and that the land was pleasant,
so he bowed his shoulder to bear,
    and ^(W)became a servant at forced labor.

^16 (X)“Dan shall ^(Y)judge his people
    as one of the tribes of Israel.
¹⁷ Dan ^(Z)shall be a serpent in the way,
    a viper by the path,
that bites the horse's heels
    so that his rider falls backward.
¹⁸ I ^(AA)wait for your salvation, O Lord.

^19 (AB)“Raiders shall raid ^(AC)Gad,^[c]
    but he shall raid at their heels.

^20 (AD)“Asher's food shall be rich,
    and he shall yield royal delicacies.

^21 (AE)“Naphtali is a doe let loose
    that bears beautiful fawns.^[d]

²² “Joseph is ^(AF)a fruitful bough,
    a fruitful bough by a spring;
    his branches run over the wall.^[e]
23 The archers ^(AG)bitterly attacked him,
    shot at him, and harassed him severely,
²⁴ yet ^(AH)his bow remained unmoved;
    his arms^[f] were made agile
by the hands of the ^(AI)Mighty One of Jacob
    (from there is ^(AJ)the Shepherd,^{[g] (AK)}the Stone of Israel),
^25 (AL)by the God of your father who will help you,
    by ^(AM)the Almighty^{[h] (AN)}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 ^(AO)of the everlasting hills.^[i]
May they be ^(AP)on the head of Joseph,
    and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

^27 (AQ)“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,
    in the morning devouring the prey
    and at evening ^(AR)dividing the spoil.”