1And Ya’akov (he who holds onto the heel of) called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you[that] which shall befall you^f in the last days.

2Gather yourselves together, and hear, you^f sons of Ya’akov (he who holds onto the heel of); and hearken unto Isra’el (he who holds onto God-The Creator) yourf father.

3Re’uven (behold a son), youⁱ [are] my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

4Unstable as water, youⁱ shall not excel; because youⁱ went up to yourⁱ father’s bed; then defiled youⁱ [it]: he went up to my couch.

5Shim’on (heard; he who hears; man of hearing) and Levi (Levite) [Joined to] (joined) [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations.

6O my soul, come not youⁱ into their secret; unto their assembly, my honour, be not youⁱ united: for in their anger they killed a man, and in their stubbornness they dug down a wall.

7Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Ya’akov (he who holds onto the heel of), and scatter them in Isra’el (he who holds onto God-The Creator).

8Y’hudah (Let the Powerful One be Praised [Yah]), youⁱ [are he] whom you(i) brethren shall praise: your(i) hand [shall be] in the neck of yourⁱ enemies; your(i) father’s children shall bow down before youⁱ.

9Y’hudah [is] a lion’s whelp (a cub; a young one): from the prey, my son, youⁱ are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

10The sceptre shall not depart from Y’hudah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh [Place of Rest] come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the people [be].

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

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

13Z’vulun (exalted; Glorious Dwelling Place) shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he [shall be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be] unto Tzidon [Hunting].

14Yissakhar (there is recompense) is a strong donkey couching down between two burdens:

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.

16Dan (Judge) shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Isra’el (he who holds onto God-The Creator).

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

18I have waited for yourⁱ salvation, O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

19Gad, (troop; good fortune with much effort) a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

20Out of Asher (happy) his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

21Naftali (My Wrestling) [is] a hind let loose: he gives goodly words.

22Yosef (Increaser; May God the Powerful One add [Yah]) [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:

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

24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God-Elohim [The Living Word - The Many Powered] of Ya’akov (he who holds onto the heel of); (from there [is] the shepherd, the stone of Isra’el [he who holds onto God-The Creator])

25by the God-Elohim [The Living Word - The Many Powered] of yourⁱ father, who shall help youⁱ; and by the EL Shaddai [The Powerful/Almighty Living Word], who shall bless youⁱ with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

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

27Binyamin (This Son Is Strength) shall voracious [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil (plunder; prey; booty).

28All these [are] the twelve tribes of Isra’el (he who holds onto God-The Creator): and this [is it] that their father spoke unto them, and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) them; every one according to his blessing he Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) them. 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 ‘Efron (fawn-like) the Hitti (terrorists), 30In the cave that [is] in the field of Makhpelah (portion; double cave), which [is] before Mamre (firmness; fatling (fat cattle) offering), in the land of Kena’an (merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues), which Avraham [exalted father/Fly They Will] bought with the field of ‘Efron (fawn-like) the Hitti (terrorists) for a possession of a burying place. 31There they buried Avraham [exalted father/Fly They Will] and Sarah [Princess] his wife; there they buried Yitz’chak [Laughter] and Rivkah (Tied Up; Secured) his wife; and there I buried Le’ah (weary; grieved). 32The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is] in it [was] from the children of Het (terror). 33And when Ya’akov (he who holds onto the heel of) 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.