<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.

&#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.

<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>

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.

<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" />