<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up God bless you in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> God bless you (variants include God bless or bless you) is a common English expression, used to wish a person blessings in various situations, especially as a response to a sneeze, and also, when parting or writing a valediction . </P> <P> The phrase has been used in the Hebrew Bible by Jews (cf . Numbers 6: 24), and by Christians, since the time of the early Church as a benediction, as well as a means of bidding a person Godspeed . Many clergy, when blessing their congregants individually or as a group, use the phrase "God bless you". </P> <P> A typical polite response after being told "bless you" in response to sneezing is to thank the person who has said it . </P>

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