³⁸ He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

⁷ And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

²⁰ As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

¹³ Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

¹⁴ Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.

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.

¹⁴ You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

¹⁶ And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

²⁶ And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

¹⁹ And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

⁹ And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

¹¹ And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

⁴ A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

³⁸ And a mixed band of people went with them; and flocks and herds in great numbers.

³ Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.

⁴ And the Lord will make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; there will be no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.

⁵ And the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said, Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.

⁶ And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.

⁷ And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and he did not let the people go.

⁹ So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

⁴³ So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

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.