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22 The Priests’ Blessing.[a] The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 6:22 Invoke my name upon the people of Israel means to make God benevolently present among the people. It is understandable that this text should have been adopted in the recent liturgical reform as an (optional) amplification of the blessing that the priest gives when he dismisses the people at the end of the Mass.

23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you will bless the people of Israel, saying to them,

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