[3] Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.
[4] Thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD. ...
[6a] May you live to see your children's children.
Hausvater: /HAUS-fah-ter/
noun (German)
1. Housefather.
2. Spiritually responsible head of household, including the housefather as assisted by the housemother.
>> Example: "As the Hausvater should teach it [Christian doctrine] to the entire family ..."
(Martin Luther, Small Catechism, 1529)
[3] Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.
[4] Thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD. ...
[6a] May you live to see your children's children.
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