| 1 ودعا يعقوب بنيه وقال اجتمعوا لانبئكم بما يصيبكم في آخر الايام | 1 Then Jacob called his sons, and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in days to come. |
| 2 اجتمعوا واسمعوا يا بني يعقوب. واصغوا الى اسرائيل ابيكم. | 2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father. |
| 3 رأوبين انت بكري قوتي واول قدرتي فضل الرفعة وفضل العزّ. | 3 Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the first fruits of my strength, pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power. |
| 4 فائرا كالماء لا تتفضل. لانك صعدت على مضجع ابيك. حينئذ دنسته. على فراشي صعد. | 4 Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it--you went up to my couch! |
| 5 شمعون ولاوي أخوان. آلات ظلم سيوفهما. | 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. |
| 6 في مجلسهما لا تدخل نفسي. بمجمعهما لا تتحد كرامتي لانهما في غضبهما قتلا انسانا وفي رضاهما عرقبا ثورا. | 6 O my soul, come not into their council; O my spirit, be not joined to their company; for in their anger they slay men, and in their wantonness they hamstring oxen. |
| 7 ملعون غضبهما فانه شديد وسخطهما فانه قاس. اقسمهما في يعقوب وافرقهما في اسرائيل. | 7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. |
| 8 يهوذا اياك يحمد اخوتك. يدك على قفا اعدائك يسجد لك بنو ابيك. | 8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you. |
| 9 يهوذا جرو اسد. من فريسة صعدت يا ابني. جثا وربض كاسد وكلبوة. من ينهضه. | 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up? |
| 10 لا يزول قضيب من يهوذا ومشترع من بين رجليه حتى ياتي شيلون وله يكون خضوع شعوب. | 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. |
| 11 رابطا بالكرمة جحشه وبالجفنة ابن اتانه غسل بالخمر لباسه وبدم العنب ثوبه. | 11 Binding his foal to the vine and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washes his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes; |
| 12 مسود العينين من الخمر ومبيض الاسنان من اللبن. | 12 his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. |
| 13 زبولون عند ساحل البحر يسكن وهو عند ساحل السفن وجانبه عند صيدون. | 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon. |
| 14 يساكر حمار جسيم رابض بين الحظائر. | 14 Issachar is a strong ass, crouching between the sheepfolds; |
| 15 فرأى المحلّ انه حسن والارض انها نزهة. فاحنى كتفه للحمل وصار للجزية عبدا. | 15 he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a slave at forced labor. |
| 16 دان يدين شعبه كاحد اسباط اسرائيل. | 16 Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. |
| 17 يكون دان حية على الطريق افعوانا على السبيل يلسع عقبي الفرس فيسقط راكبه الى الوراء. | 17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward. |
| 18 لخلاصك انتظرت يا رب | 18 I wait for thy salvation, O LORD. |
| 19 جاد يزحمه جيش. ولكنه يزحم مؤخره. | 19 Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels. |
| 20 اشير خبزه سمين وهو يعطي لذّات ملوك. | 20 Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties. |
| 21 نفتالي ايّلة مسيّبة يعطي اقوالا حسنة. | 21 Naphtali is a hind let loose, that bears comely fawns. |
| 22 يوسف غصن شجرة مثمرة غصن شجرة مثمرة على عين. اغصان قد ارتفعت فوق حائط. | 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall. |
| 23 فمرّرته ورمته واضطهدته ارباب السهام. | 23 The archers fiercely attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him sorely; |
| 24 ولكن ثبتت بمتانة قوسه وتشددت سواعد يديه. من يدي عزيز يعقوب من هناك من الراعي صخر اسرائيل | 24 yet his bow remained unmoved, his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel), |
| 25 من اله ابيك الذي يعينك ومن القادر على كل شيء الذي يباركك تاتي بركات السماء من فوق وبركات الغمر الرابض تحت. بركات الثديين والرحم. | 25 by the God of your father who will help you, by God Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that couches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. |
| 26 بركات ابيك فاقت على بركات ابويّ. الى منية الآكام الدهرية تكون على راس يوسف وعلى قمة نذير اخوته. | 26 The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was separate from his brothers. |
| 27 بنيامين ذئب يفترس. في الصباح يأكل غنيمة وعند المساء يقسم نهبا | 27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey, and at even dividing the spoil." |
| 28 جميع هؤلاء هم اسباط اسرائيل الاثنا عشر. وهذا ما كلمهم به ابوهم وباركهم. كل واحد بحسب بركته باركهم. | 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel; and this is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him. |
| 29 واوصاهم وقال لهم انا انضم الى قومي. ادفنوني عند آبائي في المغارة التي في حقل عفرون الحثي. | 29 Then he charged 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 في المغارة التي في حقل المكفيلة التي امام ممرا في ارض كنعان التي اشتراها ابراهيم مع الحقل من عفرون الحثي ملك قبر. | 30 in the cave that is in the field at Mach-pelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. |
| 31 هناك دفنوا ابراهيم وسارة امرأته. هناك دفنوا اسحق ورفقة امرأته. وهناك دفنت ليئة. | 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah-- |
| 32 شراء الحقل والمغارة التي فيه كان من بني حثّ. | 32 the field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites." |
| 33 ولما فرغ يعقوب من توصية بنيه ضم رجليه الى السرير واسلم الروح وانضمّ الى قومه | 33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people. |
