 for the blessing of the lord we must not now four times in this chapter is a little phrase and it becomes the dominant phrase of this whole piece of the narrative and that phrase is the lord was with joseph verse 2 the lord was with joseph verse 3 the lord was with joseph we go down to the end of the story verse 21 the lord was with joseph verse 23 the lord was with joseph now when the lord repeats himself it's for emphasis it's not because he forgot that he said it earlier