8. “You, Yehuḏah, your brothers praise you; your hand is on the neck of your enemies; your father’s children bow down before you.
9. “Yehuḏah is a lion’s cub; from the prey you have gone up, my son! He bowed down, he crouched like a lion. And like a lion, who does rouse him?
10. “The sceptre shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples.
11. “Binding his donkey to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes.
12. “His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
13. “Zeḇulun dwells at the seashore, he is for a haven for ships, and his border is unto Tsiḏon.
14. “Yissasḵar is a strong donkey lying down between two burdens,
15. and he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, and he inclined his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a subject to slave labour.
16. “Dan rightly rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl.
17. “Dan is a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward.
18. “I have waited for your deliverance, O יהוה!
19. “Gaḏ, a raiding band raids him, but he raids its heel.
20. “Bread from Ashĕr is rich, and he gives delicacies of a sovereign.
21. “Naphtali is a deer let loose, he gives words of elegance.
22. “Yosĕph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall.
23. “And the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him.