Genesis 27:12

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'What if my father touches me? Then I will appear to him as a deceiver and bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.'

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  • Deut 27:18 : 18 Cursed is anyone who leads a blind person astray on the road. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Job 12:16 : 16 "With Him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His."
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 Cursed is the one who does the LORD's work negligently, and cursed is the one who withholds their sword from blood.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 Cursed is the deceiver who has a male animal in his flock and vows to give it, but instead sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the LORD of Hosts, and my name is to be feared among the nations.
  • 2 Cor 6:8 : 8 through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as deceivers, yet truthful;
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 he said, 'Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.'
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed among the tents.
  • Gen 27:21-22 : 21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, 'Come closer so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.' 22 So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'
  • Gen 27:36 : 36 Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

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  • Gen 27:10-11
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    10Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.

    11But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, 'Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a man with smooth skin.'

  • Gen 27:13-16
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    13His mother said to him, 'Let your curse be on me, my son. Just listen to me and go, get them for me.'

    14So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a tasty meal, just the way his father liked it.

    15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

    16She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the skins of the young goats.

  • Gen 27:29-36
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    29May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.

    30As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

    31He too prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said, 'My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

    32His father Isaac asked him, 'Who are you?' He replied, 'I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.'

    33Isaac trembled violently and said, 'Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came in, and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!'

    34When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, 'Bless me—me too, my father!'.

    35But Isaac said, 'Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.'

    36Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

  • Gen 27:5-7
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    5Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

    6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau.'

    7He said, 'Bring me some game and prepare a tasty meal for me, so that I may eat and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.'

  • Gen 27:21-27
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    21Then Isaac said to Jacob, 'Come closer so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.'

    22So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'

    23He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

    24'Are you really my son Esau?' he asked. 'I am,' Jacob replied.

    25Then Isaac said, 'Bring it to me so I may eat my son’s game and bless you.' So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

    26Then Isaac, his father, said to him, 'Come near now, and kiss me, my son.'

    27So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled the scent of his garments, he blessed him and said, 'See, the scent of my son is like the scent of a field that the LORD has blessed.'

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'

    42When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 'Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.'

  • Gen 27:18-19
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    18Jacob went to his father and said, 'My father.' And Isaac said, 'Here I am. Who are you, my son?'

    19Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 44:34
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    34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come upon my father.

  • Gen 27:38
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    38Esau said to his father, 'Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!' Then Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

  • Gen 32:11
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    11I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown to your servant. With only my staff, I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

  • Gen 44:29
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    29'If you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to the grave in sorrow.'

  • Gen 31:29
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    29I have the power to harm you, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

  • Gen 32:20
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    20He also instructed the second, the third, and all those who followed the herds: 'This is what you are to say to Esau when you meet him.'

  • Gen 31:5
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    5He said to them, 'I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.'

  • Gen 27:45
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    45When your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, I will send for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?'

  • Gen 27:1
    72%

    1When Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, 'My son,' and Esau replied, 'Here I am.'

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'