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.’

He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.

May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.”

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”

You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and descended from making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering.

You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.

You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress – as the Lord your God has blessed you, you must give to them.