Yaratılış 49

¹Yakup oğullarını çağırdı ve onlara şöyle dedi: "Toplanın ki, günlerin sonunda size neyin rast geleceğini size bildireyim.

²Bir araya gelin ve beni dinleyin, ey Yakup'un oğulları; babanız İsrail'i dinleyin.

³Ruben, benim ilk doğanım, sen benim gücüm ve çocuklarımın başlangıcısın; katlanılması zor ve sert bir şekilde dikbaşlısın.

⁴Su gibi taşkınlık ettin, kaynayıp taşmayasın; çünkü babanın yatağına çıktın, o zaman üzerine çıktığın döşeğimi kirlettin.

⁵Şimon ve Levi kardeştir; kendi özgür seçimleriyle adaletsizliği tamamladılar.

⁶Onların meclisine canım girmesin ve onların topluluğuna karaciğerim dayanmasın; çünkü öfkeleriyle insanları öldürdüler ve keyiflerince bir boğanın sinirlerini kestiler.

⁷Lanetlidir onların öfkesi, çünkü dikbaşlıdır; ve gazapları, çünkü katılaştı! Onları Yakup'ta bölecek ve İsrail'de dağıtacağım.

⁸Yahuda, kardeşlerin seni övsün; ellerin düşmanlarının ensesinde olacak, babanın oğulları senin önünde eğilecekler.

⁹Yahuda bir aslan yavrusudur; filizden yükseldin, oğlum. Bir aslan gibi ve bir aslan yavrusu gibi çömelip yattı; onu kim uyandırabilir?

¹⁰Kendisine ayrılmış olan şeyler gelene dek, Yahuda'dan hükümdarlık asası ve uyluklarından bir önder eksilmeyecektir; ulusların beklentisi O olacaktır.

¹¹Sıpasını asmaya, dişi eşeğinin yavrusunu asma filizine bağlayarak; giysisini şarapta, kaftanını üzümün kanında yıkar.

¹²Gözleri şaraptan dolayı neşeli, dişleri ise sütten daha beyazdır.

¹³Zevulun deniz kıyısında yerleşecek, kendisi gemiler için bir liman olacak ve sınırı Sayda'ya dek uzanacak.

¹⁴İssakar, mirasların arasında dinlenerek iyi olanı arzuladı.

¹⁵Dinlenmenin iyi, toprağın verimli olduğunu görünce, çalışmak için omzunu eğdi ve çiftçi bir adam oldu.

¹⁶Dan, sanki İsrail'de bir kabileymiş gibi kendi halkını yargılayacak.

¹⁷Dan, yol üzerinde bir yılan, patika üzerinde pusuya yatmış, atın topuğunu ısıran bir şey olsun ki, binicisi geriye düşsün.

¹⁸Rabbin kurtarışını bekleyerek.

¹⁹Gad'a bir haydut çetesi saldıracak, fakat kendisi onun topuklarından ona saldıracak.

²⁰Aşer'in ekmeği semizdir, kendisi hükümdarlara lezzetler sunacak.

²¹Naftali serbest bırakılmış bir sürgündür, ürününde güzellik sunan.

²²Büyümüş bir oğuldur Yusuf, gıpta edilen büyümüş oğlum, en genç oğlum; bana geri dön.

²³Kendisine karşı kötü tasarılar kurarak sataştılar ve okçular ona kin beslediler.

²⁴Fakat onların yayları güçle kırıldı ve kollarının ellerinin sinirleri Yakup'un Güçlüsü'nün eliyle gevşetildi; oradan İsrail'i güçlendiren geldi, babanın Tanrısı'ndan.

²⁵Benim Tanrım sana yardım etti ve seni yukarıdan göğün kutsamalarıyla, her şeye sahip olan yerin kutsamalarıyla, memelerin ve rahmin kutsamaları nedeniyle kutsadı.

²⁶Babanın ve annenin kutsamaları, sarsılmaz dağların kutsamalarından üstün geldi ve sonsuz tepelerin kutsamaları üzerinde oldu; bunlar Yusuf'un başı üzerine, kardeşlerine önderlik edenin tepesi üzerine olsun.

²⁷Benyamin yırtıcı bir kurttur; sabahleyin hâlâ yiyecek, akşamleyin ise yiyecek dağıtır.

²⁸Bunların hepsi Yakup'un on iki oğludur; babaları onlara bunları söyledi ve onları kutsadı, her birini kendi kutsamasına göre kutsadı.

²⁹Sonra onlara şu buyruğu verdi: "Ben halkıma katılıyorum; beni atalarımın yanına, Hititli Efron'un tarlasındaki mağaraya gömün.

³⁰Kenan ülkesindeki, Mamre'nin karşısındaki çift mağaraya gömün; İbrahim o mağarayı mezar mülkü edinmek üzere Hititli Efron'dan tarlasıyla birlikte satın almıştı.

³¹Oraya gömdüler İbrahim'i ve karısı Sara'yı, oraya gömdüler İshak'ı ve karısı Rebeka'yı, oraya gömdüm Lea'yı.

³²Tarla ve içindeki mağaranın mülkiyeti Het'in oğullarından alınmıştır.

³³Yakup oğullarına buyruk vermeyi bitirince, ayaklarını yatağın üzerine kaldırdı, son nefesini vererek halkına katıldı.

¹ΕΚΑΛΕΣΕ δὲ ᾿Ιακὼβ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· συνάχθητε, ἵνα ἀναγγείλω ὑμῖν, τί ἀπαντήσει ὑμῖν ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν·

²ἀθροίσθητε καὶ ἀκούσατέ μου, υἱοὶ ᾿Ιακώβ, ἀκούσατε ᾿Ισραὴλ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν.

³Ρουβήν, πρωτότοκός μου, σὺ ἰσχύς μου καὶ ἀρχὴ τέκνων μου, σκληρὸς φέρεσθαι καὶ σκληρὸς αὐθάδης.

⁴ἐξύβρισας ὡς ὕδωρ, μὴ ἐκζέσῃς· ἀνέβης γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν κοίτην τοῦ πατρός σου· τότε ἐμίανας τὴν στρωμνήν, οὗ ἀνέβης.

⁵Συμεὼν καὶ Λευΐ ἀδελφοί· συνετέλεσαν ἀδικίαν ἐξ αἱρέσεως αὐτῶν.

⁶εἰς βουλὴν αὐτῶν μὴ ἔλθοι ἡ ψυχή μου, καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ συστάσει αὐτῶν μὴ ἐρείσαι τὰ ἥπατά μου, ὅτι ἐν τῷ θυμῷ αὐτῶν ἀπέκτειναν ἀνθρώπους καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ αὐτῶν ἐνευροκόπησαν ταῦρον.

⁷ἐπικατάρατος ὁ θυμὸς αὐτῶν, ὅτι αὐθάδης, καὶ ἡ μῆνις αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἐσκληρύνθη· διαμεριῶ αὐτοὺς ἐν ᾿Ιακὼβ καὶ διασπερῶ αὐτοὺς ἐν ᾿Ισραήλ.

⁸᾿Ιούδα, σὲ αἰνέσαισαν οἱ ἀδελφοί σου· αἱ χεῖρές σου ἐπὶ νώτου τῶν ἐχθρῶν σου· προσκυνήσουσί σοι οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ πατρός σου.

⁹σκύμνος λέοντος ᾿Ιούδα· ἐκ βλαστοῦ, υἱέ μου, ἀνέβης· ἀναπεσὼν ἐκοιμήθης ὡς λέων καὶ ὡς σκύμνος· τίς ἐγερεῖ αὐτόν;

¹⁰οὐκ ἐκλείψει ἄρχων ἐξ ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ἡγούμενος ἐκ τῶν μηρῶν αὐτοῦ, ἕως ἐὰν ἔλθῃ τὰ ἀποκείμενα αὐτῷ, καὶ αὐτὸς προσδοκία ἐθνῶν.

¹¹δεσμεύων πρὸς ἄμπελον τὸν πῶλον αὐτοῦ καὶ τῇ ἕλικι τὸν πῶλον τῆς ὄνου αὐτοῦ· πλυνεῖ ἐν οἴνῳ τὴν στολὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν αἵματι σταφυλῆς τὴν περιβολὴν αὐτοῦ·

¹²χαροποιοὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ οἴνου, καὶ λευκοὶ οἱ ὀδόντες αὐτοῦ ἢ γάλα.

¹³Ζαβουλὼν παράλιος κατοικήσει, καὶ αὐτὸς παρ᾿ ὅρμον πλοίων, καὶ παρατενεῖ ἕως Σιδῶνος.

¹⁴᾿Ισσάχαρ τὸ καλὸν ἐπεθύμησεν ἀναπαυόμενος ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν κλήρων·

¹⁵καὶ ἰδὼν τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ὅτι καλή, καὶ τὴν γῆν ὅτι πίων, ὑπέθηκε τὸν ὦμον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ πονεῖν καὶ ἐγενήθη ἀνὴρ γεωργός.

¹⁶Δὰν κρινεῖ τὸ λαὸν αὐτοῦ, ὡσεὶ καὶ μία φυλὴ ἐν ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹⁷καὶ γενηθήτω Δὰν ὄφις ἐφ᾿ ὁδοῦ, ἐγκαθήμενος ἐπὶ τρίβου, δάκνων πτέρναν ἵππου, καὶ πεσεῖται ὁ ἱππεὺς εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω,

¹⁸τὴν σωτηρίαν περιμένων Κυρίου.

¹⁹Γάδ, πειρατήριον πειρατεύσει αὐτόν, αὐτὸς δὲ πειρατεύσει αὐτὸν κατὰ πόδας.

²⁰᾿Ασήρ, πίων αὐτοῦ ὁ ἄρτος, καὶ αὐτὸς δώσει τρυφὴν ἄρχουσι.

²¹Νεφθαλεὶμ στέλεχος ἀνειμένον, ἐπιδιδοὺς ἐν τῷ γεννήματι κάλλος.

²²υἱὸς ηὐξημένος ᾿Ιωσήφ, υἱὸς ηὐξημένος μου ζηλωτός, υἱός μου νεώτατος· πρός με ἀνάστρεψον.

²³εἰς ὃν διαβουλευόμενοι ἐλοιδόρουν, καὶ ἐνεῖχον αὐτῷ κύριοι τοξευμάτων·

²⁴καὶ συνετρίβη μετὰ κράτους τὰ τόξα αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐξελύθη τὰ νεῦρα βραχιόνων χειρὸς αὐτῶν διά χεῖρα δυνάστου ᾿Ιακώβ, ἐκεῖθεν ὁ κατισχύσας ᾿Ισραήλ· παρὰ Θεοῦ τοῦ πατρός σου,

²⁵καὶ ἐβοήθησέ σοι ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ἐμὸς καὶ εὐλόγησέ σε εὐλογίαν οὐρανοῦ ἄνωθεν καὶ εὐλογίαν γῆς ἐχούσης πάντα· εἵνεκεν εὐλογίας μαστῶν καὶ μήτρας,

²⁶εὐλογίας πατρός σου καὶ μητρός σου· ὑπερίσχυσεν ὑπὲρ εὐλογίας ὀρέων μονίμων καὶ ἐπ᾿ εὐλογίαις θινῶν ἀενάων· ἔσονται ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ᾿Ιωσὴφ καὶ ἐπὶ κορυφῆς ὧν ἡγήσατο ἀδελφῶν.

²⁷Βενιαμὶν λύκος ἅρπαξ· τὸ πρωϊνὸν ἔδεται ἔτι καὶ εἰς τὸ ἑσπέρας δίδωσι τροφήν.

²⁸Πάντες οὗτοι υἱοὶ ᾿Ιακὼβ δώδεκα, καὶ ταῦτα ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῶν καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτούς, ἕκαστον κατὰ τὴν εὐλογίαν αὐτοῦ εὐλόγησεν αὐτούς.

²⁹καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· ἐγὼ προστίθεμαι πρὸς τὸν ἐμὸν λαόν· θάψατέ με μετὰ τῶν πατέρων μου ἐν τῷ σπηλαίῳ, ὅ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ ᾿Εφρὼν τοῦ Χετταίου,

³⁰ἐν τῷ σπηλαίῳ τῷ διπλῷ, τῷ ἀπέναντι Μαμβρῆ, ἐν γῇ Χαναάν, ὃ ἐκτήσατο ῾Αβραὰμ τὸ σπήλαιον παρὰ ᾿Εφρὼν τοῦ Χετταίου ἐν κτήσει μνημείου·

³¹ἐκεῖ ἔθαψαν ῾Αβραὰμ καὶ Σάρραν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, ἐκεῖ ἔθαψαν ᾿Ισαὰκ καὶ Ρεβέκκαν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, ἐκεῖ ἔθαψα Λείαν

³²ἐν κτήσει τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ τοῦ σπηλαίου τοῦ ὄντος ἐν αὐτῷ παρὰ τῶν υἱῶν Χέτ.

³³καὶ κατέπαυσεν ᾿Ιακὼβ ἐπιτάσσων τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξάρας τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην ἐξέλιπε καὶ προσετέθη πρὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ.

¹AND Jacob called his sons, and said to them,

²Assemble 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.

³Ruben, thou [art] my first-born, thou my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, [hard and] self-willed.

⁴Thou 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.

⁵Symeon and Levi, brethren, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.

⁶Let 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.

⁷Cursed 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.

⁸Juda, thy brethren have praised thee, and thy hands shall be on the back of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall do thee reverence.

⁹Juda 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?

¹⁰A 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.

¹¹Binding 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.

¹²His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

¹³Zabulon shall dwell on the coast, and he [shall be] by a haven of ships, and shall extend to Sidon.

¹⁴Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the inheritances.

¹⁵And 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.

¹⁶Dan shall judge his people, as one tribe too in Israel.

¹⁷And let Dan be a serpent in the way, besetting the path, biting the heel of the horse (and the rider shall fall backward),

¹⁸waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

¹⁹Gad, a plundering troop shall plunder him; but he shall plunder him, [pursuing him] closely.

²⁰Aser, his bread [shall be] fat; and he shall yield dainties to princes.

²¹Nephthalim is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty on its fruit.

²²Joseph is a son increased; my dearly loved son is increased; my youngest son, turn to me.

²³Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached [him], and the archers pressed hard upon him.

²⁴But 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;

²⁵and 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,

²⁶the 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.

²⁷Benjamin, as a ravening wolf, shall eat still in the morning, and at evening he gives food.

²⁸All 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.

²⁹And 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,

³⁰in 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.

³¹There they buried Abraam and Sarrha his wife; there they buried Isaac, and Rebecca his wife; there they buried Lea;

³²in the portion of the field, and of the cave that was in it, [purchased] of the sons of Chet.

³³And Jacob ceased giving charges to his sons; and having lifted up his feet on the bed, he died, and was gathered to his people.