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²Enlarge the place of your tent and extend the skins of your tabernacles, unsparingly. Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

³⁸Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again.”

²²May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your sons. ²³Blessed are you by the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

¹⁰And he who ministers seed to the sower will offer you bread to eat, and will multiply your seed, and will increase the growth of the fruits of your justice.

⁹But Jabez was renowned, more so than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “For I bore him in sorrow.” ¹⁰Truly, Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “If only, when blessing, you will bless me, and will broaden my borders, and your hand will be with me, and you will cause me not to be oppressed by evil.” And God granted to him the things for which he prayed.

¹⁰Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in my house. And test me about this, says the Lord, as to whether I will not open to you the floodgates of heaven, and pour out to you a blessing, all the way to abundance.

¹²Then Isaac sowed in that land, and he found, in that same year, one hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him.

²⁴And he said to them: “Consider what you hear. With whatever measure you have measured out, it shall be measured back to you, and more shall be added to you.

⁷so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.

³⁰He must increase, while I must decrease.

²²May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your sons.

²⁴And this shall be: before they call out, I will perceive; while they are still speaking, I will hear.

²¹You have multiplied your magnificence. And so, turning back to me, you have consoled me.

⁹Honor the Lord with your substance, and give to him from the first of all your fruits, ¹⁰and then your storehouses will be filled with abundance, and your presses shall overflow with wine.

²⁰Now to him who is able to do all things, more abundantly than we could ever ask or understand, by means of the virtue which is at work in us:

¹⁷Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.

³²I have run by way of your commandments, when you enlarged my heart.

¹¹May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to this number many thousands more, and may he bless you, just as he has said.

⁶I planted, Apollo watered, but God provided the growth. ⁷And so, neither he who plants, nor he who waters, is anything, but only God, who provides the growth.

³⁷You have expanded my footsteps under me, and my tracks have not been weakened.