Genesis 48:9
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9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.”(A)
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Genesis 27:4
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4 Then prepare for me savory food, such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”(A)
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Genesis 33:5
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5 When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”(A)
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Hebrews 11:21
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21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, “bowing in worship over the top of his staff.”(A)
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Isaiah 56:3-5
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3 Do not let the foreigner joined to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely separate me from his people,”
and do not let the eunuch say,
“I am just a dry tree.”(A)
4 For thus says the Lord:
To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,(B)
5 I will give, in my house and within my walls,
a monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.(C)
Isaiah 8:18
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18 See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.(A)
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Psalm 127:3
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3 Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb a reward.(A)
1 Chronicles 26:4-5
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4 Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,(A) 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
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1 Chronicles 25:5
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5 All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
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1 Samuel 2:20-21
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20 Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May the Lord repay[a] you with children by this woman for the loan that she made to[b] the Lord,” and then they would return to their home.(A)
21 And[c] the Lord took note of Hannah; she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.(B)
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1 Samuel 1:27
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27 For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me the petition that I made to him.(A)
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1 Samuel 1:20
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20 In due time Hannah conceived and bore a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, “I have asked him of the Lord.”(A)
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Ruth 4:11-14
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11 Then all the people who were at the gate, along with the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you produce children[a] in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem;(A) 12 and, through the children that the Lord will give you by this young woman, may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”(B)
The Genealogy of David
13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. When they came together, the Lord made her conceive, and she bore a son.(C) 14 Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without next-of-kin,[b] and may his name be renowned in Israel!(D)
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Deuteronomy 33:1
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Moses’s Final Blessing on Israel
33 This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death.(A)
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Genesis 49:28
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28 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.(A)
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Genesis 30:2
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2 Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”(A)
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Genesis 28:3-4
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3 May God Almighty[a] bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples.(A) 4 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 alien, land that God gave to Abraham.”(B)
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- 28.3 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
Genesis 27:34-40
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34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, father!”(A) 35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” 36 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob?[a] 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?”(B) 37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have already made him your lord, and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?”(C) 38 Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me, me also, father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.(D)
39 Then his father Isaac answered him:
“See, away from the fatness of the earth shall your home be
and away from the dew of heaven on high.(E)
40 By your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother,
but when you break loose,[b]
you shall break his yoke from your neck.”(F)
Genesis 27:28-29
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28 May God give you of the dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and plenty of grain and wine.(A)
29 Let peoples serve you
and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”(B)
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