Go and tell them, ‘Return to your tents!’

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Zebulun he said:p> <p class="poetry">Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside,p> <p class="poetry">and Issachar, when you are in your tents.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Dan he said:p> <p class="poetry">Dan is a lion&#8217;s cub;p> <p class="poetry">he will leap forth from Bashan.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Joseph he said:p> <p class="poetry">May the <sc>Lordsc> bless his landp> <p class="poetry">with the harvest produced by the sky,<n id="1" /> by the dew,p> <p class="poetry">and by the depths crouching beneath;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Gad he said:p> <p class="poetry">Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.p> <p class="poetry">Like a lioness he will dwell;p> <p class="poetry">he will tear at an arm &#8211; indeed, a scalp.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Naphtali he said:p> <p class="poetry">O Naphtali, overflowing with favor,p> <p class="poetry">and full of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s blessing,p> <p class="poetry">possess the west and south.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Asher he said:p> <p class="poetry">Asher is blessed with children,p> <p class="poetry">may he be favored by his brothersp> <p class="poetry">and may he dip his foot in olive oil.<n id="1" />p>

But the <sc>Lordsc> told me: &#8220;Tell them this: &#8216;Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.&#8217;&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">I lay flat on the ground before the <sc>Lordsc> for forty days and nights,<n id="1" /> for he<n id="2" /> had said he would destroy you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that same time the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Levi he said:p> <p class="poetry">Your Thummim and Urim<n id="1" /> belong to your godly one,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">whose authority you challenged at Massah,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Benjamin he said:p> <p class="poetry">The beloved of the <sc>Lordsc> will live safely by him;p> <p class="poetry">he protects him all the time,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> places him on his chest.<n id="2" />p>

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so,<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> has said you must never again return that way.

He said to them, &#8220;Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about,<n id="1" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> has said to me, &#8216;You will not cross the Jordan.&#8217;