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26 Your father’s blessings will prove to be stronger
    than blessings from the eternal mountains
        or bounties from the everlasting hills.
May they come to rest on Joseph’s head,
    May they be set upon the brow of the one
        who was separated from his own brothers.”

On the Future of Benjamin

27 “Benjamin is vicious like a wolf;
    what he kills in the morning
        he devours in the evening.”

Jacob Dies and is Buried

28 That’s how Israel blessed these[a] twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father told them when he pronounced his blessing for them, blessing each one with a blessing suitable for them.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:28 Lit. All these are the