The strongest manifestation of Jacob’s maturity in life is the fact that Jacob blessed everyone, including Pharaoh (vv. 7, 10), Jacob’s two grandsons (Gen. 48), and his own twelve sons (Gen. 49:1-28). Jacob’s supplanting hands became blessing hands (Gen. 48:14-16). Maturity in life is a matter of being filled with God as life, and blessing is the overflow of life, the overflow of God through the maturity in life. To bless others is to bring them into the presence of God and to bring God into them as grace, love, and fellowship that they may enjoy the Triune God — the Father, the Son, and the Spirit (Gen. 14:18-19; Num. 6:23-27; 2 Cor. 13:14). That Jacob blessed Pharaoh indicates that he was greater than Pharaoh (Heb. 7:7).