¹⁵ “Do not touch my chosen people,
    and do not hurt my prophets.”

⁸ “Judah, your brothers will praise you.
    You will grasp your enemies by the neck.
    All your relatives will bow before you.
⁹ Judah, my son, is a young lion
    that has finished eating its prey.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down;
    like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler’s staff from his descendants,^[a]
until the coming of the one to whom it belongs,^[b]
    the one whom all nations will honor.
¹¹ He ties his foal to a grapevine,
    the colt of his donkey to a choice vine.
He washes his clothes in wine,
    his robes in the blood of grapes.
¹² His eyes are darker than wine,
    and his teeth are whiter than milk.

¹³ “Zebulun will settle by the seashore
    and will be a harbor for ships;
    his borders will extend to Sidon.

¹⁴ “Issachar is a sturdy donkey,
    resting between two saddlepacks.^[c]
15 When he sees how good the countryside is
    and how pleasant the land,
he will bend his shoulder to the load
    and submit himself to hard labor.

¹⁶ “Dan will govern his people,
    like any other tribe in Israel.
¹⁷ Dan will be a snake beside the road,
    a poisonous viper along the path
that bites the horse’s hooves
    so its rider is thrown off.
¹⁸ I trust in you for salvation, O Lord!

¹⁹ “Gad will be attacked by marauding bands,
    but he will attack them when they retreat.

²⁰ “Asher will dine on rich foods
    and produce food fit for kings.

²¹ “Naphtali is a doe set free
    that bears beautiful fawns.

²² “Joseph is the foal of a wild donkey,
    the foal of a wild donkey at a spring—
    one of the wild donkeys on the ridge.^[d]
23 Archers attacked him savagely;
    they shot at him and harassed him.
²⁴ But his bow remained taut,
    and his arms were strengthened
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
    by the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.
²⁵ May the God of your father help you;
    may the Almighty bless you
with the blessings of the heavens above,
    and blessings of the watery depths below,
    and blessings of the breasts and womb.
²⁶ May my fatherly blessings on you
    surpass the blessings of my ancestors,^[e]
    reaching to the heights of the eternal hills.
May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph,
    who is a prince among his brothers.

²⁷ “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,
    devouring his enemies in the morning
    and dividing his plunder in the evening.”

“You will live away from the richness of the earth,
    and away from the dew of the heaven above.
⁴⁰ You will live by your sword,
    and you will serve your brother.
But when you decide to break free,
    you will shake his yoke from your neck.”