one family but all the families of the world would find blessing (11:26; cf. 12:3; 22:17b–18)! Through the patriarchal stories, the seed of the woman would triumph over infertility, captivity, oppression, and famine (12–50). How appropriate, then, that the book of Genesis closed with a lengthy poem that spoke of one from the tribe of Judah would restore nature and rule the nations (49:1–28, see esp. vv. 8–10).
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