<p class="poetry">I will bless those who bless you,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the one who treats you lightly<n id="2" /> I must curse,p> <p class="poetry">and all the families of the earth will bless one another<n id="3" /> by your name.&#8221;p>

He blessed Abram, saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Blessed be Abram by<n id="1" /> the Most High God,p> <p class="poetry">Creator<n id="2" /> of heaven and earth.<n id="3" />p>

I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations.<n id="1" /> Kings of countries<n id="2" /> will come from her!&#8221;p>

So Jacob<n id="1" /> went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent<n id="2" /> of his clothing, he blessed him, saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Yes,<n id="3" /> my son smellsp> <p class="poetry">like the scent of an open fieldp> <p class="poetry">which the <sc>Lordsc> has blessed.p>

<p class="poetry">May peoples serve youp> <p class="poetry">and nations bow down to you.p> <p class="poetry">You will be<n id="1" /> lord<n id="2" /> over your brothers,p> <p class="poetry">and the sons of your mother will bow down to you.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">May those who curse you be cursed,p> <p class="poetry">and those who bless you be blessed.&#8221;p>

So he blessed them that day, saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;By you<n id="1" /> will Israel bless,<n id="2" /> saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.&#8217;&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">These<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then I will make you<n id="1" /> into a great nation, and I will bless you,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and I will make your name great,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">so that you will exemplify divine blessing.<n id="4" />p>

Then you will take<n id="1" /> it to your father. Thus he will eat it<n id="2" /> and<n id="3" /> bless you before he dies.&#8221;p>

Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.<n id="1" />p>

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them &#8220;humankind.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He also said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Worthy of praise is<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of Shem!p> <p class="poetry">May Canaan be the slave of Shem!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Worthy of praise is<n id="1" /> the Most High God,p> <p class="poetry">who delivered<n id="2" /> your enemies into your hand.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">Abram gave Melchizedek<n id="3" /> a tenth of everything.p>

After all, Abraham<n id="1" /> will surely become<n id="2" /> a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another<n id="3" /> using his name.

Because you have obeyed me,<n id="1" /> all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another<n id="2" /> using the name of your descendants.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years,<n id="1" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> had blessed him<n id="2" /> in everything.

He made the camels kneel down by the well<n id="1" /> outside the city. It was evening,<n id="2" /> the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Laban said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come, you who are blessed by the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="2" /> Why are you standing out here when I have prepared<n id="3" /> the house and a place for the camels?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown,<n id="1" /> because the <sc>Lordsc> blessed him.<n id="2" />

&#8216;Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat<n id="1" /> it and bless you<n id="2" /> in the presence of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" /> before I die.&#8217;