A   This is the blessynge, wherwith Moses the man of God blessed þe; childr&ebar; of Israel before his death, and saide: The LORDE came from Sinai, ^note and rose vp vnto th&ebar; from Seir. He appeared fro mount Paran, and came &wt; many thousande sayntes. At his righte hande is there a lawe of fyre for them: O how loued he the people? All his sayntes are in his hande, ^note they shall set them selues downe at thy fete, and receaue of thy wordes. Moses commaunded vs the lawe, which is the enheritaunce of the congregacion of Iacob. And he was in the fulnesse of the kynge, ∧ helde þe; rulers of þe; people together, with the trybes of Israel.

Let Ruben lyue, and not dye, and his people be fewe in nombre.

This is the blessynge of Iuda. And he sayde: LORDE heare the voyce of Iuda, and brynge him vnto his people: Let his h&abar;des multiplye him, and let him be helped fr&obar; his enemies.

B   And vnto Leui he sayde: Thy perfectnes and þi; lighte be acordinge vnto the man of thy mercy, ^note wh&obar; thou hast tempted at Massa, whan ye stroue by the water of stryfe. ^noteHe that sayeth vnto his father and to his mother: I se him not: and to his brother, I knowe him not: and to his sonne, I wote not of him, those haue obserued thy wordes, and kepte þi; couenaunt: they shal teach Iacob thy iudgmentes, and Israel thy lawe: they shal laie incense before thy nose, ∧ burntofferinges vpon thine altare. LORDE, blesse thou his power ∧ accepte the workes of his handes: smyte the loynes of them þt; ryse vp agaynst him, ∧ of them that hate him, that they lifte not vp them selues.

And to Ben Iamin he saide: The beloued of the LORDE shal dwell in hope on him: All the daye longe shal he wayte vpon him, and shal dwell betwene his shulders.

C   And to Ioseph he sayde: ^note His londe lieth in the blessynge of the LORDE, there are noble frutes of heauen, of the dew, and of the depe that lyeth beneth: There are noble frutes of the increase of the Sonne, and noble rype frutes of þe; monethes: And of þe; toppes of the mountaynes of olde, and of the hilles allwaye, and of the noble frutes of þe; earth, and of the fulnesse therof. The good will of him ^note that dwelleth in the bu&esset;she, come vpon the heade of Ioseph, and ^note vpon þe; toppe of his heade that was separated fr&obar; amonge his brethren.

His bewtye is as a firstborne oxe, and his hornes are as þe; hornes of an Vnicorne: with the same shal he pu&esset;she the nacions together, euen vnto the endes of the worlde. These are the thousandes of Ephraim, and the thousandes of Manasse.

D   And vnto Zabulon he sayde: Reioyse Zabulon of thy outgoynge: but reioyse thou Isachar of thy tentes. They shall call the

people vnto þe; hyll, and there shal they offre þe; offeringes of righteousnes. For they shal sucke the abundaunce of the see, and the treasures hyd in the sonde.

And to Gad he sayde: Blessynge haue Gad, which maketh rowme. He dwelleth as a lyon, and spoyleth the arme and the toppe of the heade. And he sawe his begynnynge, that þe; heape of the teachers laye hydd there, and came with the rulers of the people, and executed the righteousnesse of the LORDE, and his iudgment on Israel.

And to Dan he sayde: Dan a yonge lyon, he shal flowe from Basan.

And to Nephtali he saide: Nephtali shal haue abundaunce of pleasure, ∧ shalbe full of the blessynge of the LORDE: his possession shalbe towarde the west and south. E   And to Asser he sayde: Asser be blessed &wt; sonnes, accepted be he with his brethren, and dyppe his fote in oyle. Yron and brasse be on thy shues. Thyne age be as thy youth.

There is no God as the God of the iust. He that sytteth vpon heauen, be thy helpe. And his glory is in the cloudes, that is the dwellynge of God from the beginnynge, and vnder the armes of the worlde. And he shal dryue out thyne enemye before the, and saye: Be destroyed. ^noteAnd Israel shall dwell safe alone. The eye of Iacob shalbe vpon þe; londe where corne and wine is, heauen also shal droppe with dewe. Happye art thou Israel, who is lyke vnto the? O thou people þt; art saued by the LORDE, which is thy helpe, shylde, and the swerde of thy glorye. Thyne enemies shal pyne awaye, and thou shalt treade vpon the height of them.

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