³ And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

¹¹ And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

³ And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing,

²² And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.

¹⁸ And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.

⁵ Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

² You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

⁴ See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

⁵ May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶ May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

³ I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.

¹⁴ So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

⁵² And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.

⁶⁰ And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.

¹⁷ That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

¹⁸ And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

² And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

³ And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

⁴ As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

⁵ No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

⁶ I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

¹⁶ And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

¹ And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.