¹雅各祝福眾子雅各把他的眾子叫來，說：“你們要聚集在一起，我要把你們日後必遇到的事告訴你們。

¹Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

²雅各的兒子們哪，你們要一起來聽；要聽你們父親以色列的話。

²Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

³流本哪，你是我的長子，是我的力量，是我的初生子；你大有尊榮，權力超眾；

³“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

⁴但是你放縱情慾，好像水沸騰一樣，你必不能居首位；因為你上了你父親的床；上了我的榻，然後把它玷污了。

⁴Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

⁵西緬和利未是兄弟；他們的刀劍是強暴的武器。

⁵“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

⁶我的靈啊，不可加入他們的陰謀；我的心啊，不可參與他們的集會，因為他們在怒中殺人，任意砍斷牛的腿筋。

⁶My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

⁷他們的怒氣可咒，因為非常暴烈；他們的烈怒可詛，因為十分兇猛；我要把他們分散在雅各家；把他們散居在以色列。

⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

⁸猶大啊，你的兄弟們要稱讚你；你的手必壓住仇敵的頸項；你父親的眾子必向你下拜。

⁸“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

⁹猶大是隻小獅子；我兒啊，你獵取了食物就上到洞穴去。他屈身伏臥，好像公獅，又像母獅，誰敢驚動他呢？

⁹Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

¹⁰權杖必不離開猶大，王圭必不離他兩腳之間，直到細羅（“細羅”有古譯本作“屬他的那位”）來到，萬族都要臣服他。

¹⁰The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

¹¹猶大把自己的驢駒拴在葡萄樹旁，把自己的小驢繫在上等的葡萄樹旁；他在葡萄酒中洗淨自己的衣服，在血紅的葡萄汁中洗衣袍。

¹¹Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

¹²他因飲酒而雙眼發紅，他因喝奶而牙齒雪白。

¹²His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

¹³西布倫必在沿海地帶居住，他必成為船隻停泊的港口，他的邊界必伸到西頓。

¹³“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

¹⁴以薩迦是一頭粗壯的驢，伏臥在羊圈（“羊圈”原文意思不詳，或譯：“重馱”）之間；

¹⁴“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

¹⁵他看安居為美，他看肥地為佳，他屈肩負重，成了服苦的奴僕。

¹⁵He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

¹⁶但要審判自己的人民，作以色列的一個支派。

¹⁶“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

¹⁷但要作路上的蛇，道中的毒蛇，他要咬傷馬蹄，使騎馬的人向後墜落。

¹⁷Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

¹⁸耶和華啊，我向來等候你的拯救。

¹⁹迦得必被侵略者追逼，他卻要追逼他們的腳跟。

¹⁹“A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

²⁰至於亞設，他的食物必定肥美，他有美食可以供奉君王。

²⁰“Asher’s food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.

²¹拿弗他利是隻得釋放的母鹿，發出優美的言語。

²¹“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

²²約瑟是一根結果子的樹枝，是一根泉旁結果子的樹枝，他的枝條蔓延出牆外。

²²“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

²³弓箭手把他苦害，向他射箭敵對他。

²³The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

²⁴但他的弓依然堅硬，他的手臂仍舊敏捷，這是出於雅各的大能者之手；出於以色列的牧者，以色列的磐石。

²⁴But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

²⁵是你父親的　神幫助你，是那全能者賜給你；他把從天上來的福，地下深淵蘊藏著的福，哺乳和生育的福，都賜給你。

²⁵even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

²⁶你父親的祝福，勝過我祖先的祝福（“勝過我祖先的祝福”有古譯本作“勝過亙古的山岡”），勝過永遠山嶺上的美物。願這些福都降在約瑟的頭上，降在兄弟中作王子的那一位頭上。

²⁶The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

²⁷便雅憫是隻撕掠的豺狼，早晨吞吃他的獵物，晚上瓜分他的擄物。”

²⁷“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil.”

²⁸這些就是以色列的十二支派；以上是他們父親對他們所說的話，是按著各人的福分給他們所祝的福。

²⁸All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

²⁹雅各的遺囑及其逝世雅各又囑咐他們，對他們說：“我快要歸到我的親族那裡去，你們要把我埋葬在赫人以弗崙田間的洞裡，與我的祖先在一起。

²⁹He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

³⁰這個洞在迦南地，在幔利前面的麥比拉的田間。那地方原是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買下來作墳地的。

³⁰in 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 as a burial place.

³¹他們在那裡埋葬了亞伯拉罕和他的妻子撒拉；又在那裡埋葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加；我也在那裡埋葬了利亞。

³¹There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

³²那塊田和田間的洞，是向赫人買來的。”

³²the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”

³³雅各對他的眾子囑咐完了，就把雙腳收回床上，氣絕而死，歸到他的親族那裡去了。

³³When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.