“As a preliminary statement, it must be stressed that nothing was more important than securing the blessing of God in one’s life or nation. Nothing else really mattered.” To put it another way, blessing is deemed the main thing. One of the reasons why we know this is that the word “blessing” is used 88 times in the book of Genesis. Hebrew mothers taught their kids that when they were writing something to repeat their vocabulary so that their main message would be clear, and certainly with 88 uses