¹And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

¹In Jakob skliče sinove svoje ter reče: Zberite se, da vam oznanim, kar se vam bo godilo v poznejših dnevih.

²Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

²Zberite se in čujte, sinovi Jakobovi, poslušajte, pravim, Izraela, očeta svojega!

³Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

³Ruben, ti si prvenec moj, moč moja in začetek mogočnosti moje, prednji v visokosti in prednji v krepkosti!

⁴Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

⁴Vzkipel si kakor voda, ne boš imel prednosti, kajti vzpel si se na očeta svojega ležišče; tedaj si je onečastil. Šel je na postelj mojo!

⁵Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

⁵Simeon in Levi sta brata: silovitosti orodje njiju meča.

⁶O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.

⁶V skrivni njun posvet ne pridi duša moja, v njiju shod se ne druži slava moja; zakaj v jezi svoji sta ubila moža, in v razuzdanosti svoji sta ohromila junca.

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.

⁷Prokleta njiju jeza, ker silna je bila, in njiju togota, ker neusmiljena je bila: razdelim ju v Jakobu in ju razkropim v Izraelu.

⁸Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

⁸Juda, tebe, da, tebe bodo slavili bratje tvoji; roka tvoja bode sovražnikom tvojim na tilniku, priklanjali se ti bodo očeta tvojega sinovi.

⁹Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

⁹Levov mladič je Juda; od plena, sin moj, si prišel kvišku. Počivajoč leži kakor lev in kakor levinja, kdo se ga drzne zbuditi?

¹⁰The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

¹⁰Ne vzame se žezlo od Jude, niti vladarska palica izmed nog njegovih, dokler ne pride Šilo [T. j. pokoj; drugi tolmačijo: dokler ne pride v Silo.], in njemu bode pokorščina narodov.

¹¹Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

¹¹Priveže za trto osliča svojega in za plemenito trto oslice svoje mladiča ter pere v vinu obleko svojo in v krvi grozdja plašč svoj;

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

¹²oči so mu žareče od vina in zobje beli od mleka.

¹³Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

¹³Zebulon bo prebival ob pristanišču morskem in pristanišče bo ladjam in stran njegova proti Sidonu.

¹⁴Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

¹⁴Isahar je osel močnih kosti, ležeč med ograjami.

¹⁵And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

¹⁵Ko bo videl, da je pokoj dober in da je prijetna dežela njegova, podstavi ramo svojo, da nosi tovor, in postane davku podvržen tlačan.

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

¹⁶Dan bo sodil ljudstvo svoje kakor eden rodov Izraelovih.

¹⁷Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

¹⁷Dan bode kakor kača ob potu, gad ob stezi, ki pika konja v kopita, da se jezdec zvrne znak.

¹⁸I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

¹⁸Rešenje tvoje čakam, o GOSPOD!

¹⁹Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

¹⁹Gad, bojna gneča bo pritiskala nanj, on pa jim bo pritiskal na pete.

²⁰Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

²⁰Od Aserja pride maščoba, kruh njegov, in on bo dajal slaščice kraljeve.

²¹Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

²¹Neftali je košuta izpuščena, on govori besede lepe.

²²Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

²²Sin rodovitnega drevesa je Jožef, sin rodovitnega drevesa ob studencu, mladike njegove se vzpenjajo čez zidovje.

²³The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

²³Hudo so ga užalili in nanj streljali in ga preganjali lokostrelci:

²⁴But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

²⁴vendar nepremičen ostane lok njegov in gibčni lahti rok njegovih, po rokah Mogočnega Jakobovega. Odtod je pastir, kamen Izraelov:

²⁵Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

²⁵od mogočnega Boga očeta tvojega, ki ti bo pomagal, in od Vsegamogočnega, ki te bo blagoslovil z blagoslovi nebes odzgoraj, z blagoslovi globine odspodaj, z blagoslovi prsi in maternice.

²⁶The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

²⁶Blagoslovi očeta tvojega presegajo blagoslove prednikov mojih do meje hribov večnih; bivajo naj na glavi Jožefovi in na temenu Odličnega med svojimi brati.

²⁷Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

²⁷Benjamin je volk, ki trga; zgodaj uživa rop in na večer deli plen.

²⁸All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

²⁸Vsi ti so dvanajsteri rodovi Izraelovi; in to jim je govoril njih oče, ko jih je blagoslavljal; vsakega izmed njih je blagoslovil, kakor mu je bil določen blagoslov.

²⁹And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

²⁹In zapove jim in jim reče: Ko bom zbran k ljudstvu svojemu, pokopljite me pri mojih očetih, v jamo, ki je na njivi Efrona Hetejca,

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 of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

³⁰v jamo, ki je na njivi Makpeli, nasproti Mamri v deželi Kanaanski, ki jo je kupil Abraham ž njivo vred od Efrona Hetejca v groba posest:

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

³¹tam so pokopali Abrahama in Saro, ženo njegovo, tam so pokopali Izaka in Rebeko, ženo njegovo, in tam sem pokopal Lejo.

³²The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

³²Kupljena je ona njiva in jama, ki je na njej, od Hetovih sinov.In ko je Jakob nehal zapovedovati sinom svojim, potegne noge svoje v posteljo in umrje, in zbran je bil k svojim ljudstvom.

³³And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

³³In ko je Jakob nehal zapovedovati sinom svojim, potegne noge svoje v posteljo in umrje, in zbran je bil k svojim ljudstvom.