“And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.”
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her: our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the gates of their enemies. The blessing over Rebekah echoes the blessing over Abraham in Genesis 22:17 — thousands upon thousands, possessing the gates of enemies. The family sends her with the covenant blessing on her lips and the covenant promise over her future. Psalm 128:3-4 pictures the blessed household in similar terms. The application: the blessings spoken over those who depart are not empty sentiment — they are covenantal prayers that invoke the same promises over the next generation.
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