Бытие 49
1 Призва же Иаков сыны своя и рече им: соберитеся, да возвещу вам, что срящет вас в последния дни:
Then Jacob called his sons, and he said to them: “Gather together, so that I may announce what will happen to you in the last days.
2 соберитеся и послушайте мене, сынове Иаковли, послушайте Израиля, послушайте отца вашего.
Gather together and listen, O sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
3 Рувим, первенец мой, ты крепость моя и начало чад моих: жесток терпети и жесток упорник:
Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the beginning of my sorrow: first in gifts, greater in authority.
4 досадил еси яко вода, да не воскипиши: возшел бо еси на ложе отца твоего, тогда осквернил еси постелю, идеже возшел еси.
You are being poured out like water, may you not increase. For you climbed onto your father’s bed, and you defiled his resting place.
5 Симеон и Левий братия совершиста обиду от воли своея:
The brothers Simeon and Levi: vessels of iniquity waging war.
6 в совет их да не приидет душа моя, и к собранию их да не прилепятся внутренняя моя: яко во гневе своем избиста человеки, и в похоти своей пререзаста жилы юнца:
Let not my soul go by their counsel, nor my glory be within their meeting. For in their fury they killed a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.
7 проклята ярость их, яко упорна, и гнев их, яко ожесточися: разделю их во Иакове и разсею их во Израили.
Cursed be their fury, because it was obstinate, and their indignation, because it was harsh. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.
8 Иудо, тебе похвалят братия твоя, руце твои на плещу враг твоих: поклонятся тебе сынове отца твоего:
Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be at the necks of your enemies; the sons of your father will reverence you.
9 скимен львов Иуда: от леторасли, сыне мой, возшел еси: возлег уснул еси яко лев и яко скимен: кто возбудит его?
Judah is a lion’s young. You have gone up to the prey, my son. While resting, you have lain like a lion. And just like a lioness, who would rouse him?
10 Не оскудеет князь от Иуды и вождь от чресл его, дондеже приидут отложеная Ему, и Той чаяние языков:
The scepter from Judah and the leader from his thigh will not be taken away, until he who will be sent arrives, and he will be the expectation of Gentiles.
11 привязуяй к лозе жребя свое и к винничию жребца осляте своего, исперет вином одежду свою и кровию гроздия одеяние свое:
Tying his young colt to the vineyard, and his donkey, O my son, to the vine, he will wash his robe in wine, and his cloak in the blood of the grape.
12 радостотворны очи его паче вина, и белы зубы его паче млека.
His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
13 Завулон при мори вселится, и той на пристанищи кораблей, и прострется даже до Сидона.
Zebulun will live at the seashore and by the outpost of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.
14 Иссахар доброе возжела, почивая посреде пределов,
Issachar will be a strong donkey, reclining between the borders.
15 и видев покой, яко добр, и землю, яко тучна, подложи рамы свои на труд, и бысть муж земледелец.
He saw that rest would be good, and that the land was excellent. And so he bent his shoulder to carry, and he became a servant under tribute.
16 Дан судити имать люди своя, яко и едино племя во Израили,
Dan will judge his people just like any other tribe in Israel.
17 и да будет Дан змий на пути, седяй на распутии, угрызая пяту конску:
Let Dan be a snake in the way, a viper in the path, biting the hooves of horses, so that his rider may fall backward.
18 и падет конник вспять, спасения ждый Господня.
I will wait for your salvation, O Lord.
19 Гад, искушение искусит его: он же искусит того при ногах.
Gad, being girded, will fight before him. And he himself will be girded backward.
20 Асир, тучен его хлеб, и той даст пищу князем.
Asher: his bread will be fat, and he will provide delicacies to the kings.
21 Неффалим стебль распущающаяся, издаяй во отрасли доброту.
Naphtali is a stag sent forth, offering words of eloquent beauty.
22 Сын возращен Иосиф, сын возращен мой ревностный, сын мой юнейший, ко мне обратися:
Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and stately to behold; the daughters run back and forth on the wall.
23 на негоже советующе укоряху и наляцаху нань господие стреляний,
But those who held darts, provoked him, and they contend with him, and they envied him.
24 и сотрошася с крепостию луки их, и разслабеша жилы мышцей рук их, рукою сильнаго Иакова: оттуду укрепися Израиль от Бога отца твоего,
His bow sits in strength, and the bands of his arms and hands have been let loose by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob. From there he went forth as a pastor, the stone of Israel.
25 и поможе тебе Бог мой, и благослови тя благословением небесным свыше и благословением земли и имущия вся: благословения ради сосцев и ложесн,
The God of your father will be your helper, and the Almighty will bless you with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the abyss that lies beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26 благословения отца твоего и матере твоея: преодоле паче благословения гор пребывающих и благословения холмов вечных: будут на главе Иосифове и на версе (главы) братий, имиже обладаше.
The blessings of your father are strengthened by the blessings of his fathers, until the desire of the hills of eternity shall arrive. May they be at the head of Joseph, and at the summit of the Nazarite, among his brothers.
27 Вениамин волк хищник, рано яст еще и на вечер дает пищу.
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning he will eat the prey, and in the evening he will divide the spoil.”
28 Вси сии сынове Иаковли дванадесять: и сия глагола им отец их, и благослови их: коегождо по благословению его благослови их,
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. These things their father spoke to them, and he blessed each one with their proper blessings.
29 и рече им: аз прилагаюся к людем моим: погребите мя со отцы моими в пещере, яже есть в селе Ефрона Хеттеанина,
And he instructed them, saying: “I am being gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 в пещере Сугубей, яже прямо Мамврии в земли Ханаани, юже стяжа Авраам пещеру у Ефрона Хеттеанина в стяжание гроба.
opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought, along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial.
31 Тамо погребоша Авраама и Сарру жену его, тамо погребоша Исаака и Ревекку жену его, тамо погребоша Лию,
There they buried him, with his wife Sarah.” And there Isaac was buried with his wife Rebekah. There also Leah lies preserved.
32 в стяжании села и пещеры, яже есть в нем у сынов Хеттеовых.
33 И преста Иаков завещая сыном своим, и возложив Иаков нозе свои на одр умре, и приложися к людем своим.
And having finished these commands by which he instructed his sons, he drew his feet onto the bed, and he passed away. And he was gathered to his people.
