26 Your father’s blessings are greater
    than the blessings of the ancient mountains,
    than[a] the bounty of the age-old hills.
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,
    on the brow of the prince among[b] his brothers.

27 ‘Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
    in the morning he devours the prey,
    in the evening he divides the plunder.’

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:26 Or of my progenitors, / as great as
  2. Genesis 49:26 Or of the one separated from