19. Gad--troops will rush upon him; But he will rush upon the heel.
20. Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he will give royal dainties.
21. Naphtali is a hind let loose; He giveth goodly words.
22. Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well; His branches shoot over the wall.
23. The archers have provoked him, And shot at, and hated him;
24. But his bow abideth firm, And the arms of his hands are supple By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:
25. From the ·God of thy father, and he will help thee; And from the Almighty, and he will bless thee--With blessings of heaven from above, With blessings of the deep that lieth under, With blessings of the breast and of the womb.
26. The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my ancestors, Unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
27. Benjamin-- as a wolf will he tear to pieces; In the morning he will devour the prey, And in the evening he will divide the booty.
28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them; and he blessed them: every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29. And he charged them, and said to them, I am gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30. in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite to Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite along with the field for a possession of a sepulchre.
31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife; and there I buried Leah.