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Genesis 48:9
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Genesis 48:9
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9 “They are the sons God has given me here,”(A) Joseph said to his father.
Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless(B) them.”
Genesis 33:5
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Genesis 33:5
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5 Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.
Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.(A)”
Genesis 27:4
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Genesis 27:4
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4 Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like(A) and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing(B) before I die.”(C)
Hebrews 11:21
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Hebrews 11:21
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21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons,(A) and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
Isaiah 56:3-5
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Isaiah 56:3-5
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3 Let no foreigner(A) who is bound to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.”(B)
And let no eunuch(C) complain,
“I am only a dry tree.”
4 For this is what the Lord says:
Isaiah 8:18
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Isaiah 8:18
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18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.(A) We are signs(B) and symbols(C) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.(D)
Psalm 127:3
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Psalm 127:3
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3 Children are a heritage from the Lord,
offspring a reward(A) from him.
1 Chronicles 26:4-5
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1 Chronicles 26:4-5
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4 Obed-Edom also had sons:
Shemaiah the firstborn,
Jehozabad the second,
Joah the third,
Sakar the fourth,
Nethanel the fifth,
5 Ammiel the sixth,
Issachar the seventh
and Peullethai the eighth.
(For God had blessed Obed-Edom.(A))
1 Chronicles 25:5
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1 Chronicles 25:5
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5 (All these were sons of Heman the king’s seer. They were given him through the promises of God to exalt him. God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.)
1 Samuel 2:20-21
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1 Samuel 2:20-21
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20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the Lord give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed(A) for and gave to[a] the Lord.” Then they would go home. 21 And the Lord was gracious to Hannah;(B) she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew(C) up in the presence of the Lord.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 2:20 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text and asked from
1 Samuel 1:27
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1 Samuel 1:27
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27 I prayed(A) for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.
1 Samuel 1:20
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1 Samuel 1:20
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20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son.(A) She named(B) him Samuel,[a](C) saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard by God.
Ruth 4:11-14
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Ruth 4:11-14
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11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate(A) said, “We are witnesses.(B) May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah,(C) who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah(D) and be famous in Bethlehem.(E) 12 Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez,(F) whom Tamar(G) bore to Judah.”
Naomi Gains a Son
13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive,(H) and she gave birth to a son.(I) 14 The women(J) said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord,(K) who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer.(L) May he become famous throughout Israel!
Deuteronomy 33:1
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Deuteronomy 33:1
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Moses Blesses the Tribes(A)
33 This is the blessing(B) that Moses the man of God(C) pronounced on the Israelites before his death.
Genesis 49:28
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Genesis 49:28
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28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel,(A) and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing(B) appropriate to him.
Genesis 30:2
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Genesis 30:2
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2 Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God,(A) who has kept you from having children?”(B)
Genesis 28:3-4
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Genesis 28:3-4
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3 May God Almighty[a](A) bless(B) you and make you fruitful(C) and increase your numbers(D) until you become a community of peoples. 4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham,(E) so that you may take possession of the land(F) where you now reside as a foreigner,(G) the land God gave to Abraham.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai
Genesis 27:34-40
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Genesis 27:34-40
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34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry(A) and said to his father, “Bless(B) me—me too, my father!”
35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully(C) and took your blessing.”(D)
36 Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob[a]?(E) This is the second time he has taken advantage of(F) me: He took my birthright,(G) and now he’s taken my blessing!”(H) Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine.(I) So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.(J)
39 His father Isaac answered him,(K)
Footnotes
- Genesis 27:36 Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he takes advantage of or he deceives.
Genesis 27:28-29
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Genesis 27:28-29
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28 May God give you heaven’s dew(A)
and earth’s richness(B)—
an abundance of grain(C) and new wine.(D)
29 May nations serve you
and peoples bow down to you.(E)
Be lord over your brothers,
and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.(F)
May those who curse you be cursed
and those who bless you be blessed.(G)”
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