Genesis 27
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Genesis 27:32-38

32Isaac his father said to him, “1Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, 2your firstborn, Esau.” 33Then Isaac 3trembled violently, and said, “4Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? 5Yes, and he shall be blessed.” 34When Esau heard the words of his father, 6he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” 35And he said, “7Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.” 36Then he said, “8Is he not rightly named 9Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” 37But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him 10your master, and all his 11relatives I have given to him 12as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?” 38Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and 13wept.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 27:32 Gen 27:18 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 27:32 Gen 25:33, 34 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 27:33 Lit trembled with a very great trembling ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 27:33 Gen 27:35 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 27:33 Gen 25:23; 28:3, 4; Num 23:20 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 27:34 Heb 12:17 ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 27:35 Gen 27:19 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 27:36 Or Was he then named Jacob that he has ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 27:36 Gen 25:26, 32-34 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 27:37 Gen 27:28, 29 ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 27:37 Lit brothers ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 27:37 Lit for ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 27:38 Heb 12:17 ↩

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