Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed out.
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
“Bless God in the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel's fountain!”
He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!”
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