8 “As for you, Judah,+ your brothers will laud you.+ Your hand will be on the back of the neck of your enemies.+ The sons of your father will prostrate themselves to you.+

14 So the [three-tribe] division* of the camp of the sons of Judah pulled away first of all in their armies,+ and Nahʹshon+ the son of Am·minʹa·dab was over its army.

2 To this Jehovah said: “Judah will go up.+ Look! I shall certainly give the land into his hand.”

2 For Judah+ himself proved to be superior among his brothers, and the one for leader was from him;+ but the right as firstborn was Joseph’s+—