The
Blessing of Moses is the name given to a
prophetic poem that appears in
Deuteronomy , where it is presented as a blessing of the
Tribes of Israel by
Moses. The poem thus shares its theme with the
Blessing of Jacob, but otherwise these two poems have little in common, except for describing one of the tribes as a judge, and another as a '
lion's whelp', though in the Blessing of Moses it is
Gad that is the judge and
Dan the whelp, whereas in the other poem it is Dan that is the judge and
Judah the whelp. Like the Blessing of Jacob, that of Moses contains few blessings, most of the verses describing the condition of the tribes at a later time.