Genesis 27:7

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He 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.'

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  • Deut 33:1 : 1 This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the Israelites before his death.
  • Josh 6:26 : 26 At that time, Joshua pronounced this oath: 'Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up to rebuild this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn, he will lay its foundation; and at the cost of his youngest, he will set up its gates.'
  • 1 Sam 24:19 : 19 Today you have shown that you dealt well with me, for when the LORD gave me into your hand, you did not kill me.

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  • Gen 27:2-6
    5 verses
    92%

    2Isaac said, 'See now, I have grown old, and I do not know the day of my death.'

    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.

    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.'

  • Gen 27:8-10
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    8Now, my son, listen to my voice and do what I command you.

    9Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare a tasty meal for your father, just the way he loves it.

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

  • Gen 27:29-33
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    86%

    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!'

  • Gen 27:24-26
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    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 27:19-20
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    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.'

    20Isaac asked his son, 'How did you find it so quickly, my son?' 'Because the LORD your God brought it to me,' Jacob replied.

  • Gen 27:17
    79%

    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had prepared to her son Jacob.

  • 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 25:28-30
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    28Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

    29One day when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, exhausted.

    30Esau said to Jacob, 'Let me gulp down some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.' This is why he was also called Edom.

  • Gen 27:12
    75%

    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 33:11
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    11Please accept the blessing that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me, and I have all I need.' And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.

  • Gen 27:36-37
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    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?'