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And 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.
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Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”
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Esau’s Lost Blessing
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
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But he said, “Your brother came with guile, and he has taken away your blessing.”
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Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
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Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
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Jacob Escapes Esau’s Fury
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.”
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May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham!”
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From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had, in house and field.
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So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, ‘God make you as E′phraim and as Manas′seh’”; and thus he put E′phraim before Manas′seh.
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by the God of your father who will help you, by God Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that couches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
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The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was separate from his brothers.
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Jacob’s Death and Burial
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel; and this is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
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And Moses said, “Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, that he may bestow a blessing upon you this day.”
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I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.
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Blessings for Obedience
“And because you hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which he swore to your fathers to keep;
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“Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
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the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day,
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And when the Lord your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Ger′izim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
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A Prescribed Place of Worship
“However, you may slaughter and eat flesh within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the hart.
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every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you.
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Nevertheless the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam; but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.
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Blessings for Obedience
“And if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
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And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
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The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
