And Ya'aqov called to his sons and said, 'Gather yourselves and I will tell you what will happen to you in the last days.'

'Gather and hear, sons of Ya'aqov, and hear Yisra'el your father.'

'Re'uven, you are my firstborn, my strength and the beginning of my might, the superiority of exaltation and the superiority of power.'

'Unstable like water, you will not have superiority, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.'

'Shim'on and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their weapons.'

'Into their council, my soul, do not come; in their assembly, my honor, do not join, because in their anger they killed a man, and in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox.'

'Cursed is their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is harsh; I will divide them in Ya'aqov and scatter them in Yisra'el.'

'Yehudah, you, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons will bow to you.'

'Yehudah is a lion cub; from the prey, my son, you have ascended; he crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness; who will rouse him?'

'The scepter will not depart from Yehudah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him the obedience of peoples.'

'He ties his donkey to the vine, and his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he washes his garment in wine, and his robe in the blood of grapes.'

'His eyes are redder than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.'

'Zevulun will dwell at the seashore, and he at the harbor of ships, and his flank will be toward Tsidon.'

'Yisaskhar is a strong-boned donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.'

'And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant under tribute.'

'Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Yisra'el.'

'Dan will be a serpent on the road, a viper on the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that its rider falls backward.'

'For your deliverance I have waited, יהוה.'

'Gad, a troop will attack him, but he will attack their heel.'

'From Asher, his bread will be rich, and he will provide royal delicacies.'

'Naftali is a deer let loose; he gives beautiful words.'

'Yosef is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring; branches run over the wall.'

'Archers harassed him, and shot at him, and hated him.'

'But his bow remained strong, and the muscles of his hands were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya'aqov, from there, the shepherd, the stone of Yisra'el.'

'From the Elohim of your father, and he will help you, and from Shaddai, and he will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.'

'The blessings of your father are stronger than the blessings of my ancestors, reaching to the bounds of the eternal hills; they will be on the head of Yosef, and on the crown of the head of the one separated from his brothers.'

'Binyamin is a wolf that tears; in the morning he eats prey, and in the evening he divides plunder.'

'All these are the twelve tribes of Yisra'el, and this is what their father spoke to them, and he blessed them; each according to his blessing he blessed them.'

'And he commanded 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 Efron the Hittite.'

'In the cave that is in the field of the Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Kena'an, which Avraham bought with the field from Efron the Hittite for a burial place.'

'There they buried Avraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Yitsḥaq and Rivqah his wife; and there I buried Leah.'

'The purchase of the field and the cave that is in it was from the sons of Ḥet.'

'And Ya'aqov finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet to the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.'