1-5. Moses, man of God, blessed the People of Israel with this blessing before his death. He said,God came down from Sinai,he dawned from Seir upon them;He radiated light from Mount Paran,coming with ten thousand holy angelsAnd tongues of firestreaming from his right hand.Oh, how you love the people,all his holy ones are palmed in your left hand.They sit at your feet,honoring your teaching,The Revelation commanded by Moses,as the assembly of Jacob’s inheritance.Thus God became king in Jeshurunas the leaders and tribes of Israel gathered.
12. Benjamin:“God’s beloved;God’s permanent residence.Encircled by God all day long,within whom God is at home.”
13-17. Joseph:“Blessed by God be his land:The best fresh dew from high heaven,and fountains springing from the depths;The best radiance streaming from the sunand the best the moon has to offer;Beauty pouring off the tops of the mountainsand the best from the everlasting hills;The best of Earth’s exuberant gifts,the smile of the Burning-Bush Dweller.All this on the head of Joseph,on the brow of the consecrated one among his brothers.In splendor he’s like a firstborn bull,his horns the horns of a wild ox;He’ll gore the nations with those horns,push them all to the ends of the Earth.Ephraim by the ten thousands will do this,Manasseh by the thousands will do this.”