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And to Levi he said, Give to Levi his manifestations, and his truth to the holy man, whom they tempted in the temptation; they reviled him at the water of strife.
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Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen thee; and he knew not his brethren, and he refused to know his sons: he kept thine oracles, and observed thy covenant.
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They shall declare thine ordinances to Jacob, and thy law to Israel: they shall place incense in thy wrath continually upon thine altar.
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Bless, Lord, his strength, and accept the works of his hands; break the loins of his enemies that have risen up against him, and let not them that hate him rise up.
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And to Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in confidence, and God overshadows him always, and he rested between his shoulders.
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And to Joseph he said, His land of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below,
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and of the fruits of the changes of the sun in season, and of the produce of the months,
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from the top of the ancient mountains, and from the top of the everlasting hills,
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and of the fullness of the land in season: and let the things pleasing to him that dwelt in the bush come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown glorified above his brethren.
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His beauty the firstling of his bull, his horns the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasse.
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And to Zabulon he said, Rejoice, Zabulon, in thy going out, and Issachar in his tents.