“And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.”
May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham. The explicit Abrahamic covenant — blessing, land, possession — is now formally passed to Jacob by his father Isaac. The application: when a father explicitly blesses a son with the covenant inheritance, it is one of the most significant acts in the biblical narrative. Isaac is doing for Jacob what Abraham did for Isaac.
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