Genesis 24:60
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60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her:
“Our sister, may you become
(A)The mother of thousands of ten thousands;
(B)And may your descendants possess
The gates of those who hate them.”
Genesis 22:17
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17 blessing I will (A)bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants (B)as the stars of the heaven (C)and as the sand which is on the seashore; and (D)your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
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Genesis 17:16
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16 And I will bless her (A)and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother (B)of nations; (C)kings of peoples shall be from her.”
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Ruth 4:11-12
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11 And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. (A)The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who (B)built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in (C)Ephrathah and be famous in (D)Bethlehem. 12 May your house be like the house of (E)Perez, (F)whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of (G)the offspring which the Lord will give you from this young woman.”
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Genesis 28:3
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3 “May (A)God Almighty bless you,
And make you (B)fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;
Genesis 48:15-16
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15 And (A)he blessed Joseph, and said:
“God, (B)before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
The God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
16 The Angel (C)who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;
Let (D)my name be named upon them,
And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And let them (E)grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Genesis 9:1
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God’s Promise to Noah
9 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: (A)“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
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Genesis 1:28
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28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, (A)“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and (B)subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that [a]moves on the earth.”
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- Genesis 1:28 moves about on
Daniel 7:10
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10 (A)A fiery stream issued
And came forth from before Him.
(B)A thousand thousands ministered to Him;
Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him.
(C)The [a]court was seated,
And the books were opened.
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- Daniel 7:10 Or judgment
Deuteronomy 21:19
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19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.
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Leviticus 25:46
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46 And (A)you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
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Genesis 48:20
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20 So he blessed them that day, saying, (A)“By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!’ ” And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
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Genesis 14:19
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19 And he blessed him and said:
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