“There is a decided difference in the words of Jacob and of Moses over the 12—the one regarded them as children, and the other as tribes of the Lord.  Jacob was anticipating their own conduct and history, and Moses was putting them severally in that place of honour and blessing which God had settled and secured for them.  In the words of Moses you get nothing but blessing.  No mention of any fault or evil of their own.  It is the tribes under the covenant of promise in the latter day.  It is blessing, as from Mount Gerizim, being under God’s covenant, as just before it was the curse from Ebal under their own.”  (Deut. 28).  J. G. B.