¹A Jakob povolal svojich synov a riekol: Sídite sa, a oznámim vám, čo sa bude s vami diať v pozdejších dňoch.

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

²Shromaždite sa a počujte, synovia Jakobovi, počujte Izraela, svojho otca!

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

³Rúben, ty si môj prvorodený, moja sila a počiatok mojej vlády, predné dôstojnosti a predné moci.

³Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.

⁴Zkypenie u teba jako zkypenie vody; nebudeš vynikať, lebo si vystúpil na ložu svojho otca. Vtedy si poškvrnil moju posteľ vystúpiac na ňu.

⁴Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

⁵Simeon a Lévi sú bratia; ich meče sú nástrojmi ukrutnosti.

⁵Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.

⁶Nech nevojde moja duša do ich rady a moja sláva nech sa nepripojí k ich shromaždeniu, lebo vo svojom hneve zavraždili muža a vo svojej samovôli podrezali volovi žily.

⁶O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox.

⁷Zlorečený ich hnev, pretože bol násilnícky, a ich prchlivosť, pretože bola tvrdá. Rozdelím ich v Jakobovi a rozptýlim ich v Izraelovi.

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.

⁸Júda, teba budú chváliť tvoji bratia. Tvoja ruka bude na šiji tvojich nepriateľov. Klaňať sa ti budú synovia tvojho otca.

⁸Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.

⁹Júda je ľvíča. Od lúpeže, môj synu, odišiel si hore. Sklonil sa, leží jako lev a jako ľvica; kto ho zobudí, aby vstal?!

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 a lioness; who shall rouse him up?

¹⁰Neuhne berla od Júdu ani palica zákonodarcu zpomedzi jeho kolien, dokiaľ neprijde Šílo, a jeho budú poslúchať národy.

¹⁰The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come: And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

¹¹Priviaže svoje osľa na vinič a na výbornú révu syna svojej oslice; operie svoje rúcho vo víne a v krvi hrozna svoj odev.

¹¹Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He hath washed his garments in wine, And his vesture in the blood of grapes:

¹²Bude tmavších očí nad víno, a belších zubov nad mlieko.

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

¹³Zabulon, bude bývať smerom ku brehu mora a sám bude prístavom lodí, a jeho hranica sa potiahne na Sidon.

¹³Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; And he shall be for a haven of ships; And his border shall be upon Sidon.

¹⁴Izachár, kostnatý osol silný, ktorý leží medzi dvoma ohradami.

¹⁴Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between the sheepfolds:

¹⁵Keď uvidí odpočinok, že je dobrý, a zem, že je rozkošná, zohne svoje plece, aby niesol bremä a slúžiac bude dávať daň.

¹⁵And he saw a resting-place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under taskwork.

¹⁶Dán, bude súdiť svoj ľud ako jedno z pokolení Izraelových.

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

¹⁷Dán bude hadom na ceste, jedovatým hadom rohatým na chodníku, ktorý štípe päty koňa, aby padol jeho jazdec nazad.

¹⁷Dan shall be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider falleth backward.

¹⁸Na tvoje spasenie očakávam, Hospodine!

¹⁸I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah.

¹⁹Gád, zástup ho bude sovierať, ale naposledy on sovrie.

¹⁹Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press upon their heel.

²⁰Z Asera? Jeho chlieb bude samá tučnota, a on bude dodávať rozkošné potraviny kráľovské.

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

²¹Naftali, vypustená jelenica, ktorý dáva krásne reči.

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

²²Jozef je syn plodného stromu, syn plodného stromu nad prameňom; jeho letorasty vychádzajú na múr.

²²Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.

²³Boli ho naplnili horkosťou; strieľali do neho a útočili na neho strelci, strieľajúci strely z lučišťa.

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

²⁴No, jeho lučište zostalo v sile, a pružnými zostávajú ramená jeho rúk od rúk mocného Boha Jakobovho, odtiaľ pastier, kameň Izraelov,

²⁴But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

²⁵od silného Boha, Boha tvojho otca, ktorý ti bude pomáhať, a od Všemohúceho, ktorý ťa požehná požehnaním neba s hora, požehnaniami hlbiny, ktorá sa rozkladá pod zemou dole, požehnaniami pŕs a lona.

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 coucheth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

²⁶Požehnania tvojho otca budú mocnejšie ako boly požehnania mojich predkov, a to až po hranice večných brehov; budú složené na hlavu Jozefovu, na temeno nazareja jeho bratov.

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.

²⁷Benjamin bude jako dravý vlk; ráno bude jesť lúpež a na večer rozdelí korisť.

²⁷Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning she shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil.

²⁸To všetko sú pokolenia Izraelove, ktorých je dvanásť. A to je to, čo im hovoril ich otec, a požehnal ich, každého z nich požehnal podľa toho, jaké bolo ktorého požehnanie.

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.

²⁹A prikázal im a riekol im: Ja budem pripojený k svojmu ľudu. Pochovajte ma k mojim otcom, do jaskyne, ktorá je na poli Efrona Hetejského,

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,

³⁰v jaskyni, ktorá je na poli Machpela, ktorá je naproti Mamremu, v Kananejskej zemi, ktorú to jaskyňu kúpil Abrahám i s poľom od Efrona Hetejského, aby mu bolo vlastníctvom na pohrabište.

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 for a possession of a burying-place.

³¹Tam pochovali Abraháma i Sáru, jeho ženu; tam pochovali Izáka i Rebeku, jeho ženu, a tam som ja pochoval Leu.

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

³²Pole i jaskyňa, ktorá je na ňom, je kúpou od synov Heta.

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

³³A keď prestal Jakob prikazovať svojim synom, vyložil svoje nohy na posteľ a zomrel a bol pripojený k svojmu ľudu.

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