19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. (A)Come now, sit and eat of my game, so that [a](B)you may bless me.”

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  1. Genesis 27:19 Lit your soul

25 So he said, “Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, that [a](A)I may bless you.” And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank.

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  1. Genesis 27:25 Lit my soul

31 Then he also made a delicious meal, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “(A)Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that [a](B)you may bless me.”

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  1. Genesis 27:31 Lit your soul

And Joseph said to his father, “(A)They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” So he said, “Bring them to me, please, so that (B)I may bless them.”

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15 And he blessed Joseph, and said,

(A)The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
(B)The God who has been my shepherd [a]all my life to this day,
16 (C)The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
(D)Bless the boys;
And may my name [b]live on in them,
And the [c]names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And (E)may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

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  1. Genesis 48:15 Lit from the continuance of me
  2. Genesis 48:16 Lit be called
  3. Genesis 48:16 Lit name

The Blessing by Moses

33 Now this is the blessing with which Moses (A)the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.

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20 By faith (A)Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come.

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