15. He saw that a resting place was goodand that the land was pleasant.He lowered his shoulder to haul loadsand joined the work gangs.
16. Dan will settle disputes for his people,as one of Israel’s tribes.
17. Dan will be a snake on the road,a serpent on the path,biting a horse’s heels,so its rider falls backward.
18. I long for your victory, Lord.
19. Gad will be attacked by attackers,but he’ll attack their back.
20. Asher grows fine foods,and he will supply the king’s delicacies.
21. Naphtali is a wild doethat gives birth to beautiful fawns.
22. Joseph is a young bull,a young bull by a spring,who strides with oxen.
23. They attacked him fiercely and fired arrows;the archers attacked him furiously.
24. But his bow stayed strong,and his forearms were nimble,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 who blesses youwith blessings from the skies aboveand blessings from the deep sea below,blessings from breasts and womb.
26. The blessings of your father exceedthe blessings of the eternal mountains,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.
27. Benjamin is a wolf who hunts:in the morning he devours the prey;in the evening he divides the plunder."
28. These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them by giving each man his own particular blessing.
29. Jacob ordered them, "I am soon to join my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave that’s in the field of Ephron the Hittite;
30. in the cave that’s in the field of Machpelah near Mamre in the land of Canaan that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial property.
31. That is where Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, and where Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and where I buried Leah.
32. It is the field and the cave in it that belonged to the Hittites."