“And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,”
Then he blessed Joseph and said: may the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day. The blessing begins with the theological foundation: the God of three generations, the God who has shepherded Jacob all his life. The application: the blessing that begins by naming the God of the fathers is the blessing that carries covenant weight. Jacob blesses from the foundation of three generations of covenant faithfulness.
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