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Blessing (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on blessing across religious traditions, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on blessing across religious traditions, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a broad comparative overview rather than a tradition specific scholarly treatment. NotesWikipedia's article on blessing, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for the term's Old English etymology, the Priestly Blessing's formal setting at Numbers 6:24 to 27, and the named forms blessing takes across living traditions today, standard reference facts rather than contested claims.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessing
Source Typereference
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- Practices, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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