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25 by the God of your father Who helps you, and by the All-powerful Who brings good to you. He brings good from heaven above, and from the deep that lies below, and from the body of a mother. 26 More good has come to your father than to my fathers before me, as lasting as the hills that last forever. May this good be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was divided from his brothers.

27 “Benjamin is a hungry wolf. In the morning he eats the animals he has caught. And in the evening he divides what he has taken.”

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25 because of your father’s God,(A) who helps(B) you,
    because of the Almighty,[a](C) who blesses you
with blessings of the skies above,
    blessings of the deep springs below,(D)
    blessings of the breast(E) and womb.(F)
26 Your father’s blessings are greater
    than the blessings of the ancient mountains,
    than[b] the bounty of the age-old hills.(G)
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,(H)
    on the brow of the prince among[c] his brothers.(I)

27 “Benjamin(J) is a ravenous wolf;(K)
    in the morning he devours the prey,(L)
    in the evening he divides the plunder.”(M)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:25 Hebrew Shaddai
  2. Genesis 49:26 Or of my progenitors, / as great as
  3. Genesis 49:26 Or of the one separated from