19. Gad, a troop shall press upon him: But he shall press upon their heel.
20. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties.
21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words.
22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.
23. The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him:
24. But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel,)
25. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
26. The blessings of thy father Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
27. Benjamin is a wolf that ravineth: In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil.
28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto 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 before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace: