I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name.”

He blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.

I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”

So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying, “Yes, my son smells like the scent of an open field which the Lord has blessed.

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you will Israel bless, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

He also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem!

Worthy of praise is the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.

Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.

He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Laban said to him, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’