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16         with the gifts of the earth and all that fills it,
    and the favor of the one who lives on Sinai.[a]
I pray that all these rest on Joseph’s head,
    on the crown of that prince among brothers.
17 A firstborn bull[b]—that’s how majestic he is!
    A wild ox’s horns—those are his horns!
        With them he gores all peoples
        completely, to the far ends of the earth!
His horns[c] are Ephraim’s tens of thousands.
    His horns are Manasseh’s thousands.”
18 Then he told Zebulun:
“Zebulun: celebrate when you are out and about;
    Issachar: celebrate when you are at home in your tents!

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:16 Or lives in a bush
  2. Deuteronomy 33:17 Sam, LXX, Vulg; DSS (4QDeuth) and Heb the oldest offspring of his bull
  3. Deuteronomy 33:17 Or they; also in the next line

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