Deu 33:6-25 | ESV | STEP | Let Reuben live , and not die , but let his men be few .

Deuteronomy 33:6-25

6 ^a“Let Reuben live, and not die,
but let his men be few.”
7 And this he said of Judah:

“Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah,
and bring him in to his people.
With your hands contend ^{▼▼Probable reading; Hebrew With his hands he contended} for him,
and be a help against his adversaries.”
8 And ^cof Levi he said,

“Give to Levi ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text lacks Give to Levi} ^eyour Thummim,
and your Urim to your godly one,
^fwhom you tested at Massah,
with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;
9 who said of his father and mother,
‘I regard them not’;
^ghe disowned his brothers
and ignored his children.
For ^hthey observed your word
and kept your covenant.
10 ⁱThey shall teach Jacob your rules
and Israel your law;
^jthey shall put incense before you
and ^kwhole burnt offerings on your altar.
11 Bless, O Lord, his substance,
and ^laccept the work of his hands;
crush the loins of his adversaries,
of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”
12 ^mOf Benjamin he said,

“The beloved of the Lord dwells in safety.
The High God ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew dwells in safety by him. He} surrounds him all day long,
and dwells between his shoulders.”
13 And ^oof Joseph he said,

^p“Blessed by the Lord be his land,
with the choicest gifts of heaven ^qabove, ^{▼▼Two Hebrew manuscripts and Targum; Hebrew with the dew}
and of the deep that crouches beneath,
14 with the choicest fruits of the sun
and the rich yield of the months,
15 with the finest produce of the ancient mountains
and the abundance of ^sthe everlasting hills,
16 with the best gifts of the earth and ^tits fullness
and the favor of ^uhim who dwells in the bush.
May these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
17 ^vA firstborn bull ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Samaritan; Masoretic Text His firstborn bull}—he has majesty,
and his horns are the horns of a ^xwild ox;
with them ^yhe shall gore the peoples,
all of them, to the ends of the earth;
^zthey are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
18 And of Zebulun he said,

^aa“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
and Issachar, in your tents.
19 They shall call peoples ^abto their mountain;
there they offer ^acright sacrifices;
for they draw from the abundance of the seas
and the hidden treasures of the sand.”
20 And ^adof Gad he said,

“Blessed be he who enlarges Gad!
Gad crouches ^aelike a lion;
he tears off arm and scalp.
21 ^afHe chose the best of the land for himself,
for there a commander’s portion was reserved;
and ^aghe came with the heads of the people,
with Israel he executed the justice of the Lord,
and his judgments for Israel.”
22 And ^ahof Dan he said,

^ai“Dan is a lion’s cub
^ajthat leaps from Bashan.”
23 And ^akof Naphtali he said,

“O Naphtali, sated with favor,
and full of the blessing of the Lord,
^alpossess the lake ^{▼▼Or west} and the south.”
24 And ^anof Asher he said,

“Most blessed of sons be Asher;
let him be the favorite of his brothers,
and let him ^aodip his foot in oil.
25 Your bars shall be iron and bronze,
and as your days, so shall your strength be.