1The copy of the words of Judah, what things he spake to his sons before he died.
2They gathered themselves together, therefore, and came to him, and he said to them: Hearken, my children, to Judah your father.
3I was the fourth son born to my father Jacob; and Leah my mother named me Judah, saying, I give thanks to the Lord, because He hath given me a fourth son also.
4I was swift in my youth, and obedient to my father in everything.
5And I honoured my mother and my mother's sister.
6And it came to pass, when I became a man, that my father blessed me, saying, Thou shalt be a king, prospering in all things.