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The text of the blessing is found in Numbers 6:23–27. It is also known as the Aaronic blessing. According to the Torah, [4] Aaron blessed the people, [5] and YHWH [6] promises that "They (the Priests) will place my name on the Children of Israel (the Priests will bless the people), and I will bless them".
"The Lord bless you and keep you" is a setting of the Priestly Blessing, also known as the Aaronic blessing, from the Book of Numbers in the Bible (Numbers 6:24–26).The blessing, sung or spoken, is used at the conclusion of worship, baptism, ordination, marriage, and other special occasions in Christian worship.
—The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6:24-26, NIV) svetikd - Getty Images. A Prayer for Endings and Beginnings. Dear Father,
These Berachot often took the form of a blessing upon the fulfillment of a mitzvah (divine commandment). The most important benediction was the Priestly Blessing pronounced by the kohanim (priests descended from Aaron), as found in Numbers 6:23–27.
The Ketef Hinnom scrolls, also described as Ketef Hinnom amulets, are the oldest surviving texts currently known from the Hebrew Bible, dated to c. 600 BCE. [2] The text, written in the Paleo-Hebrew script (not the Babylonian square letters of the modern Hebrew alphabet, more familiar to most modern readers), is from the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible, and has been described as "one of ...
In 1979, two tiny silver scrolls, inscribed with portions of the well-known Priestly Blessing from the Book of Numbers and apparently once used as amulets, were found in one of the burial chambers. The delicate process of unrolling the scrolls while developing a method that would prevent them from disintegrating took three years.
In the Torah, the covenant is called "a covenant of salt forever" [2] (with salt symbolizing permanence due to its use as a preservative [3]) and "a statute forever". [4]In midrash, the priestly covenant is one of five everlasting covenants, [5] [6] and can never be taken from Aaron and his descendants.
In Judaism, a berakhah, bracha, brokho, brokhe (Hebrew: בְּרָכָה; pl. בְּרָכוֹת, berakhot, brokhoys; "benediction," "blessing") is a formula of blessing or thanksgiving, recited in public or private, usually before the performance of a commandment, or the enjoyment of food or fragrance, and in praise on various occasions.