1. Now this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death.
2. Then he said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and he dawned upon them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came with myriads of holy ones, at his right hand a fiery law for them.
3. Moreover, he loves his people, all the holy ones were in your hand, and they bowed down to your feet, each one accepted directions from you.
4. A law Moses instructed for us, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
5. And then a king arose in Jeshurun, at the gathering of the leaders of the people, united were the tribes of Israel.
6. “May Reuben live, and may he not die, and let his number not be few.”
7. And he said this of Judah, “Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people; his own hands strive for him, and may you be a help against his foes.”
8. And of Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are for your faithful one, whom you tested at Massah; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.
9. The one saying of his father and of his mother, ‘I have not regarded them,’ and his brothers he did not acknowledge, and his children he did not know, but rather they observed your word, and your covenant they kept.