“Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem.
They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”
A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
About Naphtali he said: “Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the Lord and is full of his blessing; he will inherit southward to the lake.”
There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.
She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor.
The people of Zebulun risked their very lives; so did Naphtali on the terraced fields.