18. For your salvation I wait, Adonai!
19. Gad—attackers will attack him, but he will attack their heels.
20. Asher—rich is his food— he will provide delicacies fit for a king.
21. Naphtali is a doe let loose, who offers words of beauty.
22. A fruitful son is Joseph, a fruitful son beside a spring— daughters walk along a wall.
23. The archers were bitter and shot arrows and were hostile towards him.
24. Yet his bow was always filled, and his arms quick-moving— by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there a Shepherd, the Stone of Israel,
25. from the God of your father who helps you, and Shaddai who blesses you, with blessings of heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of breasts and womb.
26. The blessings of your father surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains, the desire of the everlasting hills. May they be upon Joseph’s head, upon the crown of the one set apart from his brothers.
27. Benjamin is a ravening wolf— in the morning he devours spoils, and in the evening divides plunder.
28. These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this is what their father spoke to them. He blessed them, each one he blessed with a suitable blessing.
29. Then he charged them and said to them, “I am about to be 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, that is next to Mamre in the land of Canaan—the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a property for burial.