He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau&#8217;s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.<n id="1" />

May the sovereign God<n id="1" /> bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants!<n id="2" /> Then you will become<n id="3" /> a large nation.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">But Laban said to him, &#8220;If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here,<n id="1" /> for I have learned by divination<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> has blessed me on account of you.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then the man<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.&#8221;<n id="2" /> &#8220;I will not let you go,&#8221; Jacob replied,<n id="3" /> &#8220;unless you bless me.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him<n id="1" /> before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed<n id="2" /> Pharaoh.

I will indeed bless you,<n id="1" /> and I will greatly multiply<n id="2" /> your descendants<n id="3" /> so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession<n id="4" /> of the strongholds<n id="5" /> of their enemies.

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there.<n id="1" /> As he blessed him,<n id="2" /> Isaac commanded him, &#8220;You must not marry a Canaanite woman.&#8221;<n id="3" />

God blessed them<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.&#8221;<n id="2" />

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy<n id="1" /> because on it he ceased all the work that he<n id="2" /> had been doing in creation.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you.<n id="1" /> I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants.<n id="2" /> He will become the father of twelve princes;<n id="3" /> I will make him into a great nation.

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy.<n id="1" /> The Lord<n id="2" /> has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

They blessed Rebekah with these words:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Our sister, may you become the mother<n id="2" /> of thousands of ten thousands!p> <p class="poetry">May your descendants possess the strongholds<n id="3" /> of their enemies.&#8221;p>

After Abraham&#8217;s death, God blessed<n id="1" /> his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.<n id="2" />p>

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them<n id="1" /> all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.<n id="2" />

so that<n id="1" /> you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed<n id="2" /> you, but have always treated you well<n id="3" /> before sending you away<n id="4" /> in peace. Now you are blessed by the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then<n id="1" /> I will eat it so that I may bless you<n id="2" /> before I die.&#8221;p>

Isaac<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son.<n id="2" /> Then I will bless you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> So Jacob<n id="4" /> brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac<n id="5" /> drank.