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.

¹Zvino Jakove akadana vanakomana vake, akati, Unganai, ndi­kuudzei zvamuchaitirwa namazuva ano­tevera.

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

²Unganai, munzwe imwi vanakomana vaJakove, Teererai Isiraeri, baba venyu.

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

³Rubheni, iwe uri dangwe rangu, simba rangu, nokutanga kwesimba rangu; Ukuru hwokukudzwa, noukuru hwesimba;

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.

⁴Unotutuma semvura, haungavi noukuru; nekuti wakakwira kuuvato hwababa vako, Ukahusvibisa; wakakwira kumubhedha wangu.

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

⁵Simioni naRevhi vana vamai vamwe; Minondo yavo inhumbi dzokurwa nesimba.

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.

⁶Mweya wangu, rega kupinda pakurangana kwavo. Kukudzwa kwangu, rega kusanganiswa neungano dzavo; nekuti pakutsamwa kwavo vakauraya vanhu, Nokuda kwavo vakagura marunda emombe.

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.

⁷Kutsamwa kwavo ngakutukwe, nekuti kwakanga kuri kukuru; Nehasha dzavo, nekuti dzakanga dzakaipa; Ndichavaparadzanisa pakati paJakove, nokuvaparadzira pakati paIsiraeri.

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.

⁸Iwe Judha, ucharumbidzwa nehama dzako; Ruoko rwako ruchava pamitsipa yavavengi vako, Vana vababa vako vachakotamira pamberi pako.

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?

⁹Judha mwana weshumba; Iwe mwanakomana wangu, wakwira uchibva pane zvakaurawa; Wakakotama, wakanyanga seshumba, Seshumbakadzi; ndianiko achamumutsa?

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.

¹⁰Tsvimbo youshe haingabvi kuna Judha, Kana mudonzvo, womubati pakati petsoka dzake, Kusvikira Shiro auya; Ndudzi dzose dzavanhu dzichamuerera iye.

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:

¹¹Unosungira sheche redhongi rake pamuzambiringa, Nomwana wedhongi rake pamuzambiringa wakaisvonaka; Wakasuka nguvo dzake newaini, Nezvokufuka zvake muropa ramazambiringa.

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

¹²Meso ake achatsvuka newaini, Meno ake achachena nomukaka.

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.

¹³Zebhuroni uchagara pamahombekombe egungwa; iye achava mahombekombe panopinda zvikepe; Muganhu wake uchasvika paSidhoni.

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

¹⁴Isakari idhongi rine simba, rinovata pasi, pakati pematanga emakwai;

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.

¹⁵Akaona zororo kuti rakanaka, Nenyika kuti inofadza, Akarerekera fudzi rake kuti atakure, akava mubatiri wechibharo.

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

¹⁶Dhani achatonga mhaka dzavanhu vake, Sorumwe rwamarudzi alsiraeri.

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.

¹⁷Dhani achava senyoka munzira, Semvumbi mugwara, Inoruma zvitsitsinho zvebhiza; Kuti mutasvi waro awire pasi neshure.

¹⁸I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

¹⁸Ndakamirira ruponeso rwenyu imwi Jehovha.

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

¹⁹Gadhi achavambwa nehondo, Asi iye achavavamba pazvitsitsinho zvavo.

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

²⁰Asheri achava nezvokudya zvakakora; Iye achauya nezvinonaka zvinofanira madzishe.

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

²¹Nafutari isheche yemhembwe yakasununguka, Anotaura mashoko akanaka.

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

²²Josefa idavi rinobereka, Idavi rinobereka patsime; matavi ake anodarika madziro.

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

²³Vapfuri nouta vakamutambudza kwazvo, Vakamupfura, vakamuvenga;

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:)

²⁴asi uta hwake hwakaramba hune simba, Maoko ezvanza zvake akasimbiswa Namaoko oWamasimbaose waJakove (Ndipo panobva Mufudzi, neBwe raIsiraeri),

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:

²⁵Mwari wababa vako achakubatsira; Wamasimbaose, achakuropafadza, Neropafadzo dzinobva kudenga kumusoro, Ropafadzo dzinobva pamvura yakadzika iri pasi, Ropafadzo dzamazamu nedzechizvaro.

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.

²⁶Ropafadzo dzababa vako Dzinopfuura ropafadzo dzamateteguru angu, kusvikira kumugumo wamakomo asingaperi; dzichagara pamusoro waJosefa, Pamusoro waiye aiva muchinda pakati pehama dzake.

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

²⁷Bhenjamini ibere rinoparadza; Mangwanani achadya chakaurawa, Madeko achagovera zvaakapamba.

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.

²⁸Ava vose ndiwo marudzi ane gumi namaviri alsiraeri; ndizvo zvakataura baba vavo kwavari, akavaropafadza; va­karopafadza mumwe nomumwe nokuro­pafadzwa kwake.

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,

²⁹Akavaraira, akati kwavari, Ini ndobva ndosanganiswa na­vanhu vangu; mundondiviga kuna madzi­baba angu, mubako riri mumunda waEfuroni, muHeti,

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.

³⁰bako riri mumunda weMakapera, pakatarisana neMamure, panyika yeKanani, riya rakatengwa naAbhurahamu pamwechete nomunda kuna Efuroni, muHeti, kuti zvive zvake, ive nzvimbo yake yokuviga;

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

³¹ndipo pavaka­viga Abhurahamu naSara, mukadzi wake; ndipo pavakaviga Isaka naRabheka, mu­kadzi wake; ndipo pandakaviga Rea;

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

³²munda uya nebako riri mukati mawo, zvakatengwa kuvana vaHeti.

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.

³³Zvino Jakove akati apedza kuraira vanako­mana vake, akadzosera tsoka dzake pau­vato, mweya wake ukabuda, akasangani­swa navanhu vake