21“Naphtali is a doe let loose,
         He gives beautiful words.

22“Joseph is a fruitful bough,
         A fruitful bough by a spring;
         Its branches run over a wall.

23“The archers bitterly attacked him,
         And shot at him and harassed him;

24But his bow remained firm,
         And his arms were agile,
         From the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob
         (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

25From the God of your father who helps you,
         And by the Almighty who blesses you
         With blessings of heaven above,
         Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
         Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

26“The blessings of your father
         Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors
         Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills;
         May they be on the head of Joseph,
         And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

27“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
         In the morning he devours the prey,
         And in the evening he divides the spoil.”

      28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him. 29Then he charged them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site. 31“There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah— 32the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth.” 33When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

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