Genesis 28:3

28:3 May the sovereign God ¹  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! ²  Then you will become ³  a large nation. ⁴ 

Genesis 48:3

48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God ⁵  appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

¹ tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.

² tn Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Gen 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.

³ tn The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + lÿ) means “become.”

⁴ tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”

⁵ tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.