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Genesis 27:28

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May God give you plenty of rain and good soil so that you will have plenty of grain and new wine.

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Isaac answered, “I gave Jacob the power to be master over you, and all his brothers will be his servants. And I kept him strong with grain and new wine. There is nothing left to give you, my son.”

Isaac said to him, “You will live far away from the best land, far from the rain.

and bring their father and their families back here to me. I will give them the best land in Egypt, and they will eat the best food we have here.

“Asher’s land will grow much good food; he will grow food fit for a king.

Your father’s God helps you. God Almighty blesses you. He blesses you with rain from above, with water from springs below, with many babies born to your wives, and many young ones born to your animals.

“May there be no dew or rain on the mountains of Gilboa, and may their fields produce no grain, because there the mighty warrior’s shield was dishonored. Saul’s shield will no longer be rubbed with oil.

Now Elijah the Tishbite was a prophet from the settlers in Gilead. “I serve the Lord, the God of Israel,” Elijah said to Ahab. “As surely as the Lord lives, no rain or dew will fall during the next few years unless I command it.”

And Solomon gave Hiram about one hundred twenty-five thousand bushels of wheat each year to feed the people who lived with him. Solomon also gave him about one hundred fifteen thousand gallons of pure olive oil every year.

I will give your servants who cut the wood one hundred twenty-five thousand bushels of wheat, one hundred twenty-five thousand bushels of barley, one hundred fifteen thousand gallons of wine, and one hundred fifteen thousand gallons of oil.”

You give us wine that makes happy hearts and olive oil that makes our faces shine. You give us bread that gives us strength.

It is like the dew of Mount Hermon falling on the hills of Jerusalem. There the Lord gives his blessing of life forever.

They eat the rich food in your house, and you let them drink from your river of pleasure.

An angry king is like a roaring lion, but his kindness is like the dew on the grass.

With his knowledge, he made springs flow into rivers and the clouds drop rain on the earth.

“Sky above, make victory fall like rain; clouds, pour down victory. Let the earth receive it, and let salvation grow, and let victory grow with it. I, the Lord, have created it.

Do foreign idols have the power to bring rain? Does the sky itself have the power to send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. You are our only hope, because you are the one who made all these things.

He said to them: “I will send you grain, new wine, and olive oil, so that you will have plenty. No more will I shame you among the nations.

Then the people of Jacob who are left alive will be to other people like dew from the Lord or rain on the grass— it does not wait for human beings; it does not pause for any person.

“They will plant their seeds in peace, their grapevines will have fruit, the ground will give good crops, and the sky will send rain. I will give all this to the people who are left alive.

They will be so pretty and beautiful. The young men will grow strong on the grain and the young women on new wine.

What about the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees there? Try to bring back some of the fruit from that land.” (It was the season for the first grapes.)

“And I give you all the best olive oil and all the best new wine and grain. This is what the Israelites give to me, the Lord, from the first crops they harvest.

It is as if some of the branches from an olive tree have been broken off. You non-Jewish people are like the branch of a wild olive tree that has been joined to that first tree. You now share the strength and life of the first tree, the Jews.

My teaching will drop like rain; my words will fall like dew. They will be like showers on the grass; they will pour down like rain on young plants.

Moses said this about the people of Joseph: “May the Lord bless their land with wonderful dew from heaven, with water from the springs below,

The people of Israel will lie down in safety. Jacob’s spring is theirs alone. Theirs is a land full of grain and new wine, where the skies drop their dew.

He will love and bless you. He will make the number of your people grow; he will bless you with children. He will bless your fields with good crops and will give you grain, new wine, and oil. He will bless your herds with calves and your flocks with lambs in the land he promised your ancestors he would give you.

It was by faith that Isaac blessed the future of Jacob and Esau.

The Israelites had moved about in the desert for forty years. During that time all the fighting men who had left Egypt had died because they had not obeyed the Lord. So the Lord swore they would not see the land he had promised their ancestors to give them, a fertile land.




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