Genesis 27:2

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Isaac said, 'See now, I have grown old, and I do not know the day of my death.'

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  • Gen 47:29 : 29 When the time of Israel’s death drew near, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me steadfast love and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt.'
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.'
  • 1 Sam 20:3 : 3 But David swore again and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Let Jonathan not know this, lest he be grieved.' But as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day will bring.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  • Isa 38:1 : 1 In those days, Hezekiah became sick to the point of death. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Set your house in order, for you are about to die and will not recover.'"
  • Isa 38:3 : 3 He said, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with a wholehearted devotion, and how I have done what is good in Your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • Mark 13:35 : 35 Therefore, stay alert, because you do not know when the master of the house will come—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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  • Gen 27:1
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    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 25:32
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    32Esau said, 'Look, I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?'

  • Gen 35:28-29
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    28Isaac lived a total of one hundred and eighty years.

    29Then Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

  • Gen 27:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    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.'

    8Now, my son, listen to my voice and do what I command you.

  • Gen 27:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3Now then, please take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.

    4Prepare for me a tasty meal, the kind I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat and bless you before I die.

  • Gen 27:24-26
    3 verses
    71%

    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.'

  • Gen 27:32-33
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    71%

    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!'

  • Job 16:22
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    22For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.

  • Deut 31:2
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    2He said to them, 'I am now 120 years old, and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, 'You shall not cross the Jordan.''

  • Gen 27:21-22
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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.'

  • Gen 44:29-31
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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.'

    30So now, if I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since his life is so closely bound up with the boy's life—

    31it will happen that when he sees the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought down the gray hair of your servant, our father, in sorrow to the grave.

  • Gen 47:29-30
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    29When the time of Israel’s death drew near, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me steadfast love and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt.'

    30When I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph answered, 'I will do as you say.'

  • Gen 46:30
    70%

    30Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Now I am ready to die, since I have seen your face and know you are still alive.'

  • Ps 39:4
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    4My heart grew hot within me; as I meditated, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

  • Isa 38:10
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    10I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

  • Deut 31:27
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    27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after my death!

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

  • Gen 27:12
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    12'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.'

  • Job 30:23
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    23I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.

  • 2 Sam 19:34-35
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    34The king said to Barzillai, "Cross over with me, and I will provide for you in Jerusalem."

    35But Barzillai said to the king, "How many more years do I have to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

  • Gen 48:21
    68%

    21Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.'

  • Gen 49:29
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    29Then he gave them these instructions: 'I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

  • Gen 27:37
    68%

    37Isaac answered Esau, 'Behold, I have made him lord over you and have given him all his brothers as servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?'

  • Job 30:2
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    2Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

  • 1 Kgs 2:1-2
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    1As David's final days approached, he commanded his son Solomon, saying:

    2I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, therefore, and show yourself to be a man.

  • Job 5:27
    68%

    27Behold, we have examined this, and it is true. Listen to it and apply it to yourself.

  • Josh 14:10
    68%

    10Now here I am, the LORD has kept me alive, as He promised, these forty-five years since the time the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel journeyed in the wilderness. And now, here I am today, eighty-five years old.

  • Gen 47:8
    68%

    8Pharaoh asked Jacob, 'How many years have you lived?''