The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

comes from my son is like a field full of flowers, blessed by God.’ May God grant you the dew of heaven, the richness of the earth, and abundance of grain and wine. May peoples be subject to you and tribes bow before you. Be the god of your brothers, and may your mother's children bow down before you. May whoever curses you be cursed, and whoever blesses you be blessed!

May God bless you with the prophetic blessing with which he blessed the children of Jacob and made the future known to them in advance, the blessing with which Judah was blessed: your brothers will praise you; your hand will bring your enemies beneath the yoke; your father's sons will bow before you. Judah is a young lion. You have risen, my son, to seize the prey, and in resting have lain down beside it like a lion and a lioness. Who will dare wake you? The scepter will not be taken from Judah, nor the lawgiver removed from his posterity, until the one who is to be sent has come, and he will be the expectation of you and of the nations. He will tie his young donkey to the vine and his she-ass, O my son, to the vine stock. He will wash his robe in wine and his cloak in the blood of the grape;