¹ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation,

¹⁶ it `is' ours, the land hath been given for an inheritance; therefore say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because I put them afar off among nations, And because I scattered them through lands, I also am to them for a little sanctuary, In lands whither they have gone in.

³ Be to me for a rock -- a habitation, To go in continually, Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark `art' Thou.

²⁷ A habitation `is' the eternal God, And beneath `are' arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!'

¹⁶ and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

¹ He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually,

¹ And this `is' the blessing `with' which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death,

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

² `Send for thee men, and they spy the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel; one man, one man for the tribe of his fathers ye do send, every one a prince among them.'

³ And Moses sendeth them from the wilderness of Paran by the command of Jehovah; all of them `are' men, heads of the sons of Israel they are,

⁴ and these their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur.

⁵ For the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori.

⁶ For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.

⁷ For the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph.

⁸ For the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea, son of Nun.

⁹ For the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu.

¹⁰ For the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi.

¹¹ For the tribe of Joseph, (for the tribe of Manasseh,) Gaddi son of Susi.

¹² For the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli.

¹³ For the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael.

¹⁴ For the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi.

¹¹ and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

⁵⁶ he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.

¹⁴ And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

⁹ (For Thou, O Jehovah, `art' my refuge,) The Most High thou madest thy habitation.

¹ An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

¹ And lo, a man of God hath come from Judah, by the word of Jehovah, unto Beth-El, and Jeroboam is standing by the altar -- to make perfume;

¹⁴ and He saith, `My presence doth go, and I have given rest to thee.'

¹⁵ And he saith unto Him, `If Thy presence is not going -- take us not up from this `place';

¹⁶ and in what is it known now, that I have found grace in Thine eyes -- I and Thy people -- is it not in Thy going with us? and we have been distinguished -- I and Thy people -- from all the people who `are' on the face of the ground.'

¹⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Even this thing which thou hast spoken I do; for thou hast found grace in Mine eyes, and I know thee by name.'

¹⁸ And he saith, `Shew me, I pray Thee, Thine honour;'

¹⁹ and He saith, `I cause all My goodness to pass before thy face, and have called concerning the Name of Jehovah before thee, and favoured him whom I favour, and loved him whom I love.'