Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin; Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. ¹  These are things they ²  adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, ³  from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people ⁴  will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground. ⁵ 

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image ¹  or any likeness ²  of anything ³  that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. ⁴ 

You must not make for yourself an image ¹  of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath. ² 

He will come and attack Egypt. Those who are destined to die of disease will die of disease. Those who are destined to be carried off into exile will be carried off into exile. Those who are destined to die in war will die in war. ¹ 

For the very thing I dreaded ¹  has happened ²  to me, and what I feared has come upon me. ³ 

Listen, my child, ¹  and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, ¹  and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that ²  the community of the Lord may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”

If they ask you, ‘Where should we go?’ tell them the Lord says this: “Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease. Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war. Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation. Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.” ¹ 

But if he does not do it with premeditation, ¹  but it happens by accident, ²  then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest ¹  will be cut off ²  from his people.’”

This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission ¹  and becomes unclean by it, ² 

They did not see ¹  what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite ¹  owes you, you must remit.

And these other tribes must stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

He will hand Israel over to their enemies ¹  because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

May the Lord protect him and save his life! ¹  May he be blessed ²  in the land! Do not turn him over ³  to his enemies! ⁴ 

They say, ¹  ‘An awful disease ²  overwhelms him, ³  and now that he is bed-ridden he will never recover.’ ⁴