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Genesis 27 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Isaac Calls to Bless Esau

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Now it happened that when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:2 - [fn]And Isaac said, “Behold now, I am old, and I do not know the day of my death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:3 - “So now, please take up your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:4 - and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”

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Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. Then Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - But Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:7 - ‘Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat and bless you in the presence of Yahweh before my death.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:8 - “So now, my son, listen to my voice [fn]as I command you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - “Go now to the flock and [fn]get for me two choice [fn]young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:10 - “Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Then Jacob [fn]answered his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - “Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a mocker in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, get them for me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:14 - So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother made a savory dish such as his father loved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took the [fn]best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:16 - And she put the skins of the [fn]young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - She also gave the savory dish and the bread, which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

Isaac Blesses Jacob and Esau

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Then he came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Rise up, please, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:20 - Then Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because Yahweh your God caused it to happen to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob came near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24 - And he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:25 - So he said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it near to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine, and he drank.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:26 - Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments, and then he blessed him and said,

“See, the smell of my son

Is like the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed;

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Now may God give you of the dew of heaven,

And of the fatness of the earth,

And an abundance of grain and new wine;

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May peoples serve you,

And nations bow down to you;

Be master of your brothers,

And may your mother’s sons bow down to you.

Cursed be those who curse you,

And blessed be those who bless you.”

(Heb 12:17 )

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Now it happened that as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:31 - Then he also made a savory dish and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that your soul may bless me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - And Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - Then Isaac [fn]trembled exceedingly violently and said, “Who 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? Indeed, he shall be blessed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - As Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, O my father!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:35 - And he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Then he said, “[fn]Is he not rightly named Jacob, 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?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - But Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and all his fellow brothers I have given to him [fn]as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - And Esau 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 wept.

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Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,

“Behold, [fn]away from the fatness of the earth shall be your habitation,

And [fn]away from the dew of heaven from above.

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“By your sword you shall live,

And your brother you shall serve;

But it shall be when you become restless,

That you will [fn]break his yoke from your neck.”

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So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - Then the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - “So now, my son, listen to my voice, and arise, [fn]flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44 - “Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s wrath [fn]subsides,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - until your brother’s anger [fn]against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of [fn]living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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LSB Footnotes
Lit He
Lit according to what
Lit take
Lit kids of goats
Lit said to
Or choice, cf. 3:6; lit desirable
Lit kids of the goats
Lit trembled with a very great trembling
Or Was he then named Jacob that he has
Lit for
Or of
Or of
Lit tear off
Lit flee for yourself
Lit turns away
Lit turns away from you
Lit my life
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