And the LORD spake unto Moses the self same day saying: get thee up
into this mountain Abarim unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab
over against Iericho. And behold the land of Canaan which I give unto
the children of Israel to possess. And die in the mount which thou
goest upon, and be gathered unto thy people: As Aaron thy brother died
in mount Hor and was gathered unto his people. For ye trespassed
against me among the children of Israel at the waters of strife, at
Cades in the wilderness of Zin: because ye sanctified me not among the
children of Israel. Thou shalt see the land before thee, but shall not
go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Chapter .xxxiij.
This is the blessing wherewith Moses God's {gods} man blessed the
children of Israel before his death saying: The LORD came from Sinai
and shewed his beams from Seir unto them, and appeared gloriously from
mount Pharan, and he came with thousands of saints, and in his right
hand a law of fire for them. How loved he the people? All his saints
are in his hand. They joined them selves unto thy foot and received thy
words. Moses gave us a law which is the inheritance of the congregation
of Iacob. And he was in Israel king when he gathered the heads of the
people and the tribes of Israel together. Ruben shall live and shall
not die: but his people shall be few in number. This is the blessing of
Iuda. And he said: hear LORD the voice of Iuda and bring him unto his
people: let his hands fight for him: but be thou his help against his
enemies. And unto Levi he said: thy perfectness and thy light be after
thy merciful man whom thou temptest at Masa and with whom thou
strivedest at the waters of strife. He that sayeth unto his father and
mother: I saw him not, and unto his brethren I knew not, and to his son
I wot not: for they have observed thy words and kept thy testament.
They shall teach Iacob thy judgements and Israel thy laws. They shall
put cense before thy nose and whole sacrifices upon thine altar. Bless
LORD their power and accept the works of their hands: smite the backs
of them that rise against them and of them that hate them: that they
rise not again. Unto Ben Iamin he said: The LORD's darling shall dwell
in safety by him and keep himself in the haven by him continually, and
shall dwell between his shoulders. And unto Ioseph he said: blessed of
the LORD is his land with the goodly fruits of heaven, with dew and
with springs that lie beneath: and with fruits of the increase of the
son and with ripe fruit of the months, and with the tops of mountains
that were from the beginning and with the dainties of hills that last
ever, and with goodly fruit of the earth and of the fulness thereof.
And the goodwill of him that dwelleth in the bush shall come upon the
head of Ioseph and upon the top of the head of him that was separated
from among his brethren, his beauty is as a firstborn ox and his horns
as the horns of an unicorn.
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