![]() In fact, some of us are so familiar with the blessing that it’s easy to take what it says for granted. Many Christians today are familiar with it from the echoes in our songs and benedictions. Then follows what we now know as the great “Aaronic blessing,” not only one of Scripture’s best-known verses but also one of its oldest. There God instructs Moses to speak to Aaron (his brother, the high priest) and to his sons, saying, “Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them . . .” (Numbers 6:23). ![]() Tucked away in an otherwise inconspicuous place in the book of Numbers, we find one of the great poems in all the Bible. ![]() The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24–26)
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