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I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.
I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and will give to your offspring all these lands; and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,
Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.
But he said, Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.
Esau said, Is he not rightly named Jacob?* For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and look, now he has taken away my blessing. Then he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
Esau said to his father, Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me, me also, father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.
May he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alienland that God gave to Abraham.
From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptians house for Josephs sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field.
So he blessed them that day, saying,
By you* Israel will invoke blessings, saying,
God make you* like Ephraim and like Manasseh.
So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.
by the God of your father, who will help you,
by the Almighty* who will bless you
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
The blessings of your father
are stronger than the blessings of the eternal mountains,
the bounties* of the everlasting hills;
may they be on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one of them with a suitable blessing.
Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone. And bring a blessing on me too!
Moses said, Today you have ordained yourselves* for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of a son or a brother, and so have brought a blessing on yourselves this day.
I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years.
If you heed these ordinances, by diligently observing them, the Lord your God will maintain with you the covenant loyalty that he swore to your ancestors;
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