Бытие 49
1 Призва же Иаков сыны своя и рече им: соберитеся, да возвещу вам, что срящет вас в последния дни:
Then Jacob summoned his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together so that I may tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.
2 соберитеся и послушайте мене, сынове Иаковли, послушайте Израиля, послушайте отца вашего.
Assemble yourselves and hear, you 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, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the the firstfruits of my virility, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
4 досадил еси яко вода, да не воскипиши: возшел бо еси на ложе отца твоего, тогда осквернил еси постелю, идеже возшел еси.
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will not have excel, because you went up to your father's bed, you went up and defiled my couch.
5 Симеон и Левий братия совершиста обиду от воли своея:
Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
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:
May I never enter their council. May my honor never be joined with their assembly. For in their anger they killed men, and for pleasure they hamstrung oxen.
7 проклята ярость их, яко упорна, и гнев их, яко ожесточися: разделю их во Иакове и разсею их во Израили.
Cursed be their anger, for it has been fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and 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 on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before 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 cub. From the prey, my son, you rise up. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
10 Не оскудеет князь от Иуды и вождь от чресл его, дондеже приидут отложеная Ему, и Той чаяние языков:
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. And it is he whom the peoples will obey.
11 привязуяй к лозе жребя свое и к винничию жребца осляте своего, исперет вином одежду свою и кровию гроздия одеяние свое:
Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey's colt to the choice vine. He will wash his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes.
12 радостотворны очи его паче вина, и белы зубы его паче млека.
His eyes will be darker 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 dwell at the seashore, and he will be a harbor for ships, and his border will be at Sidon.
14 Иссахар доброе возжела, почивая посреде пределов,
Issachar is a strong donkey lying down between the saddlebags.
15 и видев покой, яко добр, и землю, яко тучна, подложи рамы свои на труд, и бысть муж земледелец.
When he sees a good resting place, that the land is pleasant, he will bend his back to the burden, and become a slave doing forced labor.
16 Дан судити имать люди своя, яко и едино племя во Израили,
Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 и да будет Дан змий на пути, седяй на распутии, угрызая пяту конску:
Dan will be a serpent on the road, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.
18 и падет конник вспять, спасения ждый Господня.
I wait for your salvation, God.
19 Гад, искушение искусит его: он же искусит того при ногах.
Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will raid at their heels.
20 Асир, тучен его хлеб, и той даст пищу князем.
Asher's food will be rich, and he will provide royal delicacies.
21 Неффалим стебль распущающаяся, издаяй во отрасли доброту.
Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
22 Сын возращен Иосиф, сын возращен мой ревностный, сын мой юнейший, ко мне обратися:
Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a spring. His branches run over a wall.
23 на негоже советующе укоряху и наляцаху нань господие стреляний,
The archers will attack him with bitterness, and shoot at him, and harass him.
24 и сотрошася с крепостию луки их, и разслабеша жилы мышцей рук их, рукою сильнаго Иакова: оттуду укрепися Израиль от Бога отца твоего,
Yet his bow will remain steady, and his arms will be made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock 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,
by the God of your father, who will help you, and El Shaddai, who will bless you with blessings of the sky above, blessings of the deep that lies below, and 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 greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, and the bounty of the everlasting hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of the prince 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 devour the prey, and at evening he will divide the plunder."
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, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed each one with his own individual blessing.
29 и рече им: аз прилагаюся к людем моим: погребите мя со отцы моими в пещере, яже есть в селе Ефрона Хеттеанина,
Then he instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,
30 в пещере Сугубей, яже прямо Мамврии в земли Ханаани, юже стяжа Авраам пещеру у Ефрона Хеттеанина в стяжание гроба.
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hethite as a burial place.
31 Тамо погребоша Авраама и Сарру жену его, тамо погребоша Исаака и Ревекку жену его, тамо погребоша Лию,
There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah. There they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah.
32 в стяжании села и пещеры, яже есть в нем у сынов Хеттеовых.
The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the sons of Heth."
33 И преста Иаков завещая сыном своим, и возложив Иаков нозе свои на одр умре, и приложися к людем своим.
When Jacob finished instructing his sons, he drew his legs up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
