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26 The blessings of your father exceed
            the blessings of the eternal mountains,[a]
            the wealth of the everlasting hills.
        May they all rest on Joseph’s head,
            on the forehead of the one set apart from his brothers.
27 Benjamin is a wolf who hunts:
        in the morning he devours the prey;
        in the evening he divides the plunder.”

28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them by giving each man his own particular blessing.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:26 LXX; Heb uncertain

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