5:2a And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him,

The descendants of Judah became the most powerful tribe. They provided a ruler for the nation of Israel.
-or-
Judah became strong among his brothers and a ruler came from his descendants.

5:2b the birthright belonged to Joseph.

⌊However⌋ , the rights of the firstborn remained with Joseph ⌊and his sons⌋ .
-or-
Nonetheless, the birthright belonged to Joseph.

© 2020 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.