創世記 49
1 雅各叫了他的兒子們來，說：「你們都來聚集，我好把你們日後必遇的事告訴你們。
And Jacob called his sons, and said to them,
2 雅各的兒子們，你們要聚集而聽， 要聽你們父親以色列的話。
Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the last days. Gather yourselves together, and hear me, sons of Jacob; hear Israel, hear your father.
3 呂便哪，你是我的長子， 是我力量強壯的時候生的， 本當大有尊榮，權力超眾。
Ruben, thou [art] my first-born, thou my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, [hard and] self-willed.
4 但你放縱情慾，滾沸如水， 必不得居首位； 因為你上了你父親的床， 污穢了我的榻。
Thou wast insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, for thou wentest up to the bed of thy father; then thou defiledst the couch, whereupon thou wentest up.
5 西緬和利未是弟兄； 他們的刀劍是殘忍的器具。
Symeon and Levi, brethren, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.
6 我的靈啊，不要與他們同謀； 我的心哪，不要與他們聯絡； 因為他們趁怒殺害人命， 任意砍斷牛腿大筋。
Let not my soul come into their counsel, and let not mine inward parts contend in their conspiracy, for in their wrath they slew men, and in their passion they houghed a bull.
7 他們的怒氣暴烈可咒； 他們的忿恨殘忍可詛。 我要使他們分居在雅各家裏， 散住在以色列地中。
Cursed be their wrath, for it was willful, and their anger, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8 猶大啊，你弟兄們必讚美你； 你手必掐住仇敵的頸項； 你父親的兒子們必向你下拜。
Juda, thy brethren have praised thee, and thy hands shall be on the back of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall do thee reverence.
9 猶大是個小獅子； 我兒啊，你抓了食便上去。 你屈下身去，臥如公獅， 蹲如母獅，誰敢惹你？
Juda is a lion's whelp: from the tender plant, my son, thou art gone up, having couched thou liest as a lion, and as a whelp; who shall stir him up?
10 圭必不離猶大， 杖必不離他兩腳之間， 直等細羅來到， 萬民都必歸順。
A ruler shall not fail from Juda, nor a prince from his loins, until there come the things stored up for him; and he is the expectation of nations.
11 猶大把小驢拴在葡萄樹上， 把驢駒拴在美好的葡萄樹上。 他在葡萄酒中洗了衣服， 在葡萄汁中洗了袍褂。
Binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his ass to the branch [of it], he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.
12 他的眼睛必因酒紅潤； 他的牙齒必因奶白亮。
His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
13 西布倫必住在海口， 必成為停船的海口； 他的境界必延到西頓。
Zabulon shall dwell on the coast, and he [shall be] by a haven of ships, and shall extend to Sidon.
14 以薩迦是個強壯的驢， 臥在羊圈之中。
Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the inheritances.
15 他以安靜為佳，以肥地為美， 便低肩背重，成為服苦的僕人。
And having seen the resting place that it was good, and the land that it was fertile, he subjected his shoulder to labour, and became a husbandman.
16 但必判斷他的民， 作以色列支派之一。
Dan shall judge his people, as one tribe too in Israel.
17 但必作道上的蛇，路中的虺， 咬傷馬蹄，使騎馬的墜落於後。
And let Dan be a serpent in the way, besetting the path, biting the heel of the horse (and the rider shall fall backward),
18 耶和華啊，我向來等候你的救恩。
waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
19 迦得必被敵軍追逼， 他卻要追逼他們的腳跟。
Gad, a plundering troop shall plunder him; but he shall plunder him, [pursuing him] closely.
20 亞設之地必出肥美的糧食， 且出君王的美味。
Aser, his bread [shall be] fat; and he shall yield dainties to princes.
21 拿弗他利是被釋放的母鹿； 他出嘉美的言語。
Nephthalim is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty on its fruit.
22 約瑟是多結果子的樹枝， 是泉旁多結果的枝子； 他的枝條探出牆外。
Joseph is a son increased; my dearly loved son is increased; my youngest son, turn to me.
23 弓箭手將他苦害， 向他射箭，逼迫他。
Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached [him], and the archers pressed hard upon him.
24 但他的弓仍舊堅硬； 他的手健壯敏捷。 這是因以色列的牧者，以色列的磐石－ 就是雅各的大能者。
But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; thence is he that strengthened Israel from the God of thy father;
25 你父親的上帝必幫助你； 那全能者必將天上所有的福， 地裏所藏的福，以及生產乳養的福，都賜給你。
and my God helped thee, and he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,
26 你父親所祝的福 勝過我祖先所祝的福， 如永世的山嶺，至極的邊界； 這些福必降在約瑟的頭上， 臨到那與弟兄迥別之人的頂上。
the blessings of thy father and thy mother—it has prevailed above the blessing of the lasting mountains, and beyond the blessings of the everlasting hills; they shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the head of the brothers of whom he took the lead.
27 便雅憫是個撕掠的狼， 早晨要吃他所抓的， 晚上要分他所奪的。」
Benjamin, as a ravening wolf, shall eat still in the morning, and at evening he gives food.
28 這一切是以色列的十二支派；這也是他們的父親對他們所說的話，為他們所祝的福，都是按着各人的福分為他們祝福。
All these [are] the twelve sons of Jacob; and their father spoke these words to them, and he blessed them; he blessed each of them according to his blessing.
29 他又囑咐他們說：「我將要歸到我列祖那裏，你們要將我葬在赫人以弗崙田間的洞裏，與我祖我父在一處，
And he said to them, I am added to my people; ye shall bury me with my fathers in the cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Chettite,
30 就是在迦南地幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞；那洞和田是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買來為業，作墳地的。
in the double cave which is opposite Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, the cave which Abraam bought of Ephron the Chettite, for a possession of a sepulchre.
31 他們在那裏葬了亞伯拉罕和他妻子撒拉，又在那裏葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加；我也在那裏葬了利亞。
There they buried Abraam and Sarrha his wife; there they buried Isaac, and Rebecca his wife; there they buried Lea;
32 那塊田和田間的洞原是向赫人買的。」
in the portion of the field, and of the cave that was in it, [purchased] of the sons of Chet.
33 雅各囑咐眾子已畢，就把腳收在床上，氣絕而死，歸他列祖那裏去了。
And Jacob ceased giving charges to his sons; and having lifted up his feet on the bed, he died, and was gathered to his people.
