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."
33. After he finished giving orders to his sons, he put his feet up on the bed, took his last breath, and joined his people.