Genesis 27:6

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

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  • Gen 25:28 : 28 Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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  • Gen 27:5
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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,

  • Gen 27:41-43
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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.'

    43Now then, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

  • Gen 27:14-15
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    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.

  • Gen 27:17-19
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    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had prepared to her son Jacob.

    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 27:30-33
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    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!'

  • Gen 27:10-12
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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.'

    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.'

  • 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 27:7
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    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 25:28
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    28Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • 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 28:5-6
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    5Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

    6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him, he commanded him, 'You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'

  • Gen 27:35-37
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    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?'

    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?'