Motif
Ancestral names transmitted through blessing
ancestral_names_transmitted_through_blessing
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
jewish christian
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Genesis Chapter 45 / Chapter 46 / Chapter 47 / Chapter 48; lines 3220-3264 confidence: high
Israel blesses Joseph by invoking the God before whom Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who fed Jacob, and the angel who redeemed him; he asks blessing for the lads, ancestral names upon them, and multiplication on the earth.
The blessing asks that Jacob's name and the names of Abraham and Isaac be named on Ephraim and Manasseh and that they grow into a multitude.
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