“And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;”
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. El Shaddai — the name of God first used in Genesis 17:1 with Abraham — is invoked over Jacob's departure. The blessing of fruitfulness and multiplied peoples is the Abrahamic covenant being explicitly passed to Jacob. The application: the covenant blessing is portable — it travels with Jacob from the land of promise into the land of Laban, because the covenant is with Jacob, not with a location.
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