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Genesis 33:5
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked,“ Who are these with you?” He answered,“ The children God has graciously given your servant.”
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Genesis 27:4
Then make me a delicious meal that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I can bless you before I die.”
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Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
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1 Samuel 1 20
After some time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, because she said,“ I requested him from the LORD.”
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1 Samuel 2 20-1 Samuel 2 21
Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife:“ May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she has given to the LORD.” Then they would go home.The LORD paid attention to Hannah’s need, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
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Genesis 27:28-29
May God give to you— from the dew of the sky and from the richness of the land— an abundance of grain and new wine.May peoples serve you and nations bow in worship to you. Be master over your relatives; may your mother’s sons bow in worship to you. Those who curse you will be cursed, and those who bless you will be blessed.
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1 Chronicles 26 4-1 Chronicles 26 5
Obed-edom also had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth, for God blessed him.
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Psalms 127:3
Sons are indeed a heritage from the LORD, offspring, a reward.
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Genesis 49:28
These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
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1 Samuel 1 27
I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD gave me what I asked him for,
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1 Chronicles 25 5
All these sons of Heman, the king’s seer, were given by the promises of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
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Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death.
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Genesis 27:34-40
When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father,“ Bless me too, my father!”But he replied,“ Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”So he said,“ Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked,“ Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”But Isaac answered Esau,“ Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”Esau said to his father,“ Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” And Esau wept loudly.His father Isaac answered him, Look, your dwelling place will be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of the sky above.You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will break his yoke from your neck.
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Genesis 28:3-4
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
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Isaiah 8:18
Here I am with the children the LORD has given me to be signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of Armies who dwells on Mount Zion.
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Ruth 4:11-14
All the people who were at the city gate, including the elders, said,“ We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and your name well known in Bethlehem.May your house become like the house of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. He slept with her, and the LORD granted conception to her, and she gave birth to a son.The women said to Naomi,“ Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you without a family redeemer today. May his name become well known in Israel.
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Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said,“ Am I in the place of God? He has withheld offspring from you!”
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Isaiah 56:3-5
No foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD should say,“ The LORD will exclude me from his people,” and the eunuch should not say,“ Look, I am a dried-up tree.”For the LORD says this:“ For the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose what pleases me, and hold firmly to my covenant,I will give them, in my house and within my walls, a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give each of them an everlasting name that will never be cut off.