How Moses Confirmed Jacob's Blessings to the Twelve Tribes

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Vayechi 10:4

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Another interpretation: "I shall call to God Most High" (Psalm 57:3). This speaks about Jacob. When his sons came in to him for him to bless them, he began to distribute to them prokopai (that is, gifts). And from where is it shown that the Holy One, blessed be He, concurred with him? You find that all the blessings with which our father Jacob blessed the tribes, so did Moses bless them, for the Holy One, blessed be He, concurred with him concerning each and every blessing. Hence, "Then Jacob called his sons" (Genesis 49:1).

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