Genesis 27
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Genesis 27:34-40

34When Esau heard the words of his father, 1he 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, “2Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.” 36Then he said, “3Is he not rightly named 4Jacob, 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 5your master, and all his 6relatives I have given to him 7as 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 8wept.

39Then 9Isaac his father answered and said to him, “Behold, 1011away from the 12fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling, And 13away from the dew of heaven from above.40By your sword you shall live, And your brother 14you shall serve; But it shall come about 15when you become restless, That you will 16break his yoke from your neck.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 27:34 Heb 12:17 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 27:35 Gen 27:19 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 27:36 Or Was he then named Jacob that he has ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 27:36 Gen 25:26, 32-34 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 27:37 Gen 27:28, 29 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 27:37 Lit brothers ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 27:37 Lit for ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 27:38 Heb 12:17 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 27:39 Heb 11:20 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 27:39 Or of ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 27:39 Gen 27:28; Deut 33:13, 28 ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 27:39 Lit fatness ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 27:39 Or of ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 27:40 Gen 25:23; 27:29 ↩
  15. 15. Genesis 27:40 2 Kin 8:20-22 ↩
  16. 16. Genesis 27:40 Lit tear off ↩

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