參考版本 AFV A Faithful Version 的希臘文 2009版本
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19. Gad, raiders shall attack him, but he shall overcome at the last.
20. Out of Asher his bread shall be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21. Naphtali is a deer let loose. He gives goodly words.
22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall.
23. The archers have fiercely attacked him and have shot at him, and hated him.
24. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob—from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel—
25. By the God of your father, Who shall help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26. The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of my ancestors, to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him, the ruler, the leader who was separated from his brothers.
27. Benjamin is a wolf that tears in pieces. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.”
28. All these were the twelve tribes of Israel. And this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them; everyone according to his blessing, he blessed them.
29. And he charged 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 Hittite,
30. In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site.
31. They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And I buried Leah there—
32. The field was purchased, and the cave in it, from the sons of Heth.”
33. When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.
19. 迦得,不守法紀的人會起來對付他,可是,他最終得勝。
20. 亞設,他有大量財富如糧食,可以用來大排筵席。
21. 拿弗他利,出口就是純良溫馴,像鹿一樣。
22. 約瑟,像樹栽在溪水旁,結滿果子的樹,枝子伸延欄外。
23. 有許多對他看不順眼的人,猛烈去攻擊,箭如雨下,恨他入骨。
24. 只是,他作出還擊的時候,力量是大的,那是雅各相信的耶和華,伸出那強而有力的膀臂——是以色列永不動搖的保障。
25. 你父親相信那位耶和華,是會作隨時的幫助。那位大能者,賜你的福氣,是從天降下,孕育和保護。
26. 為父今日給你的祝福,遠比先祖給我的更宏大,與天地同齊。它將在你,約瑟的頭上,榮耀得像冠冕,是眾兄弟不能企及。
27. 便雅憫,他勇猛得像狼,把人獸都可以撕成碎片。早晨獵獲之物,晚間就分嘗共享。
28. 這是以色列的十二支派的底蘊。上述是作為父親說出各人的生命特徵和將有的際遇,並為此祝福,只是,因每人際遇不同,祝福的內容因人而異。
29. 雅各同時向眾人提出要求,說:想回歸到本族原居地安葬,就赫人以弗崙田間那處墓地,與列祖同埋。
30. 這地就在迦南地幔利橡園區,當中的一塊麥比拉田地,內中有一個洞穴,這洞穴是亞伯拉罕從赫人以弗崙買來作為安息的地方。
31. 在那裡埋葬了亞伯拉罕和他的妻子撒拉,也埋葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加。我同時把利亞也安放在那裡
32. 洞穴所處那遍地是從赫人那裡購得。
33. 雅各坐著囑咐完畢,就把腳提起放回床上,氣就息了,當時有眾子圍聚在床邊。
雅各十二支派出生的母系:
從利亞出的:呂便、西緬、利未、猶大、但、拿弗他利
從拉結出的:約瑟和便雅憫
從闢拉出的:迦得、亞設
從悉帕出的:以薩迦、西布倫
收了二位外孫:以法蓮、瑪拿西。他們屬約瑟支派之後。
雅各繼續描述他子孫的個性產生的人生遭遇:
v19. 迦得:是人不犯我,我不犯人,犯我的人必得教訓。
v20. 亞設:是位轄達之人,廣交朋友,相識滿天下。
v21. 拿弗他利;是心地善良,愛心滿滿。
v22. 約瑟:自強不息,結滿仁義的果子,澤及四方。不會與人結怨,若被侵犯,會勢不撓人。這份心存正義,儆惡除奸是依著耶和華而得的勇氣。
v27. 便雅憫:他的名字原來是便俄尼,意思是令人擔心。雅各給他改名為便雅憫,意思是我的膀臂。他是拉結很久才出生的兒子,也因為難產而終結一生。他是雅各心中的信仰的承傳,那是因為約瑟不在,被出賣去埃及。耶和華看來是為雅各這位有愛,又堅持原則,靈巧去解決生活種種問題,純良去面對人際關係的一個人,耶和華明白他的心意,又刻意為他成全。
雅各為此明白這位耶和華也喜愛的人,給他起了這個名字:便雅憫,他有一份狼性的勇猛,兼有一份好客的豪情:從外得來的東西,會與自己人分享。在後來,這族人的領地包括了猶大和以法蓮等支派的土地。從其而出的族人有掃羅和以斯帖,以及新約的保羅。這塊領地當中是今日耶路撒冷的聖殿所在,是以色列死守不放的土地。
雅各是開創了新約包含的二大原素:耶穌基督和保羅。他參與了人性可以選擇的先存觀念,相信也是耶和華的心意所在。
雅各之後,耶和華想親近人,只是人不想,更甚是愈來愈不想。人通過了神化,利用了知識,創新了主義,壟斷律例典章又把觀念轉移,讓正念模糊……許多許多,人靠自己的聰明智慧。
在百科全中有這樣的段:雖然沒有說明是出於 古蘭經, 班傑明(بنيامين Binyāmīn)被稱為正義的小兒子 雅各, 記在伊斯蘭的敘述中的 約瑟。除此之外,伊斯蘭傳統只有便雅憫之名,沒有生活細節,稱他是雅各妻子 拉結所生。與猶太傳統一樣。
人的聰明智慧是人本身而出的內在素質,屬工具性,好與不好,壞與更壞都是隨人心轉向:私或是無私。雅各在臨終前,將12支派的人性,說得明明白白,用意似乎只有一個:那是人性,在各人的心態上表明。若有對號入坐的情況出現,自己察然好自為之就是。有道理,不要吝惜多多分享。

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