Grace After Meals Derived from He Will Bless Your Bread

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 359:9

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"And He will bless your bread" (Exodus 23:25). From where do we derive Grace after Meals from the Torah? etc. Rabbi Yitzhak says: It is not necessary, for behold it says, "And He will bless your bread"; do not read "u-verakh" [and He will bless] but "u-varekh" [and bless you], meaning: bless. And when is it called bread? Before one eats it.

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