創世記 49
1 雅各伯叫了他的兒子們來說：「你們聚在一起，我要將你們日後所遇到的事告訴你們。
And Jacob calls to his sons and says, “Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which happens with you in the latter end of the days.
2 雅各伯的兒子! 你們集合靜聽，靜聽你們父親以色列的話：
Be assembled, and hear, sons of Jacob, And listen to your father Israel.
3 勒烏本，你是我的長子，我的力量，我壯年的首生；你過於暴燥，過於激烈，
Reuben! You [are] my firstborn, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;
4 沸騰有如滾水。你不能佔據首位，因為你侵犯了你父親的床第，上去玷污了我的臥榻。
Unstable as water, you are not abundant; For you have gone up your father’s bed; Then you have defiled [it]: He went up my couch!
5 西默盎和肋未實是一對兄弟；他們的刀劍是殘暴的武器。
Simeon and Levi [are] brothers! Instruments of violence—their espousals!
6 我的心靈決不加入他們的陰謀，我的心神決不參與他們的聚會；因為他們在盛怒下屠殺了人，任意割斷了牛的腿筋。
Into their secret, do not come, O my soul! Do not be united to their assembly, O my glory; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince.
7 他們的忿怒這樣激烈，他們的狂暴這樣凶狠，實可詛咒! 我要使他們分散在雅各伯內，使他們散居在以色列中。
Cursed [is] their anger, for [it is] fierce, And their wrath, for [it is] sharp; I divide them in Jacob, And I scatter them in Israel.
8 猶大! 你將受你兄弟的讚揚；你的手必壓在你仇敵的頸上；你父親的兒子要向你俯首致敬。
Judah! Your brothers praise you! Your hand [is] on the neck of your enemies, Sons of your father bow themselves to you.
9 猶大是隻幼獅；我兒，你獵取食物後上來，屈身伏臥，有如雄獅，又如母獅，誰敢驚動﹖
A lion’s whelp [is] Judah, For prey, my son, you have gone up; He has bent, he has crouched as a lion, And as a lioness; who causes him to arise?
10 權杖不離猶大，柄杖不離他腳間，直到那應得權杖者來到，萬民都要歸順他。
The scepter does not turn aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Until his Seed comes; And His [is] the obedience of peoples.
11 他將自己的驢繫在葡萄樹上，將自己的驢駒拴在優美的葡萄樹上；在酒中洗自己的衣服，在葡萄汁中洗自己的外氅。
Binding to the vine his donkey, And to the choice vine the colt of his donkey, He has washed in wine his clothing, And in the blood of grapes his covering;
12 他的雙眼因酒而發紅，他的牙齒因乳而變白。
Red [are] eyes with wine, And white [are] teeth with milk!
13 則步隆將居於海濱，成為船隻停泊的口岸，與漆冬毗連。
Zebulun dwells at a haven of the seas, And he [is] for a haven of ships; And his side [is] to Sidon.
14 依撒加爾是匹壯驢，臥在圈中；
Issachar [is] a strong donkey, Crouching between the two folds;
15 他覺得安居美好，地方優雅；便屈肩負重，成為服役的奴隸。
And he sees rest, that [it is] good, And the land, that [it is] pleasant, And he inclines his shoulder to bear, And is a servant for tribute.
16 丹將如以色列的一個支派，衛護自己的人民。
Dan judges his people, As one of the tribes of Israel;
17 丹必似路邊的長蟲，道旁的毒蛇，咬傷馬蹄，使騎士向後跌下。
Dan is a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, Which is biting the horse’s heels, And its rider falls backward.
18 上主! 我期待你的救援!
For Your salvation I have waited, YHWH!
19 加得要受襲擊者襲擊，但他要襲擊他們的後隊。
Gad! A troop assaults him, But he assaults last.
20 阿協爾的食物肥美，將供給君王的佳餚。
Out of Asher his bread [is] fat; And he gives delicacies of a king.
21 納斐塔里是隻被釋放的母鹿，發出悅耳的歌詠。
Naphtali [is] a doe sent away, Who is giving beautiful young ones.
22 若瑟是一株茂盛的果樹，一株泉旁茂盛的果樹；枝條蔓延牆頭。
Joseph [is] a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;
23 弓手令他苦惱，向他射擊，與他對敵；
And embitter him indeed, they have striven, Indeed, archers hate him;
24 但他的弓仍舊有力，他的手臂依然靈活；這是因了雅各伯的大能者之手，因了以色列的牧者和磐石之名；
And his bow abides in strength, And strengthened are the arms of his hands By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, From where is a shepherd, a son of Israel.
25 這是因為你父親的天主扶助了你，全能者天主，以天上高處的祝福，以地下深淵蘊藏的祝福，以哺乳和生育的祝福，祝福了你。
By the God of your father who helps you, And the Mighty One who blesses you, Blessings of the heavens from above, Blessings of the deep lying under, Blessings of breasts and womb—
26 你父親的祝福，遠超過古山岳的祝福，永遠丘陵的願望；願這些祝福都降在若瑟頭上，降在他兄弟中被選者的額上。
Your father’s blessings have been mighty Above the blessings of my progenitors, To the limit of the perpetual heights They are for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of the one Separate [from] his brothers.
27 本雅明是隻掠奪的豺狼：早上吞食獵物，晚上分贓。」
Benjamin! A wolf tears; In the morning he eats prey, And at evening he apportions spoil.”
28 以上是以色列十二支派，以及他們的父親對他們所說的話。他祝福了他們，以適合每人的祝福，祝福了他們。
All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel, and this [is] that which their father has spoken to them, and he blesses them; each according to his blessing he has blessed them.
29 以後雅各伯又囑咐他們，對他們說：「我快要歸到我親族那裏去，你們應將我葬在赫特人厄斐龍田裏的山洞裏，與我的祖先在一起。
And he commands them and says to them, “I am being gathered to my people; bury me by my fathers, at the cave which [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite;
30 這山洞是在客納罕地，面對瑪默勒的瑪革培拉的田內；這塊田原是亞巴郎由赫特人厄斐龍買了來作為私有墳地，
in the cave which [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place;
31 在那裏葬了亞巴郎和他的妻子撒辣，在那裏葬了依撒格和他的妻子黎貝加；我也在那裏葬了肋阿。
(there they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah);
32 這塊田地和其中的山洞是由赫特人買來的。」
the purchase of the field and of the cave which [is] in it, [is] from sons of Heth.”
33 雅各伯給他的兒子們立完遺囑以後，便將腳縮到床上，斷氣而死，歸到他親族那裏去了。
And Jacob finishes commanding his sons, and gathers up his feet to the bed, and expires, and is gathered to his people.
