Genesis 27:23

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And he knew him not, for his handes were rough like as ye handes of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 27:16 : 16 But the kyddes skynnes put she aboute his handes, and where he was smooth aboute the neck:
  • Heb 11:20 : 20 By faith Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau, concernynge thinges to come.
  • Rom 9:11-12 : 11 or euer the childre were borne, & had done nether good ner bad (that the purpose of God might stode acordinge to the eleccion, not by the deseruynge of workes, but by the grace of the caller) 12 it was sayde thus vnto her: The greater shal serue the lesse.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 27:19-22
    4 verses
    87%

    19Iacob sayde: I am Esau thy firstborne sonne, I haue done as thou saydest vnto me: aryse, syt vp, and eate of my venyson, that thy soule maye blesse me.

    20But Isaac sayde vnto his sonne? My sonne, how hast thou founde it so soone? He answered: The LORDE yi God brought it to my hande.

    21The sayde Isaac vnto Iacob: Come neare my sonne, that I maye fele the, whether thou be my sonne Esau or not.

    22So Iacob wete vnto Isaac his father. And whan he had felt him, he sayde: The voyce is Iacobs voyce, but the handes are the handes of Esau.

  • Gen 27:24-27
    4 verses
    78%

    24And he sayde vnto him: art thou my sonsonne Esau? He answered: Yee I am.

    25Then sayde he: Bringe me here then to eate of thy venyson my sonne, that my soule maye blesse the. Then he brought it him, and he ate: and he brought him wyne also, and he dranke.

    26And Isaac his father sayde vnto him: Come nye, and kysse me my sonne.

    27So he came nye, and he kyssed him. Then smelled he the sauoure of his clothes, and blessed him, and sayde: Beholde, the smell of my sonne is as ye smell of the felde, which ye LORDE hath blessed.

  • Gen 27:29-36
    8 verses
    77%

    29Nacions be thy seruauntes, and people fall downe at yi fote. Be thou lorde ouer thy brethren, and thy mothers children fall downe at thy fote. Cursed be he, that curseth the: and blessed be he, that blesseth the.

    30Now whan Isaac had made an ende of blessynge, and Iacob was scace gone out from his father Isaac, his brother Esau came from his huntinge,

    31and made meate also, and brought it vnto his father, and sayde vnto him: Aryse my father, and eate of yi sonnes venyson, that thy soule maye blesse me.

    32Then answered him Isaac his father: Who art thou? He sayde: I am Esau thy firstborne sonne.

    33Then was Isaac exceadingly amased aboue measure, and saide: Who? Where is then the hunter that brought me, and I haue eaten of all afore thou camest, and haue blessed him? And he shall be blessed still.

    34Whan Esau herde these wordes of his father, he cried loude, and was exceadynge sory, and sayde vnto his father: O blesse me also my father.

    35But he sayde: Thy brother came with sotyltie, and hath taken thy blessinge awaye.

    36Then sayde he: He maye well be called Iacob, for he hath vndermined me now two tymes. My byrth right hath he awaye, and beholde, now taketh he awaye my blessynge also. And he sayde: Hast thou not kepte one blessynge for me?

  • Gen 27:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10this shalt thou brynge in vnto thy father, that he maye eate, that he maye blesse the before his death.

    11Neuertheles Iacob sayde vnto Rebecca his mother: Beholde, my brother Esau is tough, and I am smooth:

    12then might my father peraduenture fele me, and I shulde seme vnto him as though I begyled him, and so brynge a curse vpon me and not a blessynge.

  • Gen 27:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15and toke Esaus hir elder sonnes costly rayment (which she had with her in ye house) and put them vpon Iacob hir yonger sonne.

    16But the kyddes skynnes put she aboute his handes, and where he was smooth aboute the neck:

  • Gen 27:1
    74%

    1And it came to passe when Isaac was olde, his eyes waxed dymme of sight, and he called Esau his greater sonne, and sayde vnto him: My sonne. He answered him: Here am I.

  • Gen 27:41
    74%

    41And Esau bare euell wyll vnto Iacob, because of the blessynge that his father had blessed him withall, and sayde in his herte: The tyme wyll come shortly, that my father shal mourne, for I wil slaye my brother Iacob.

  • Gen 25:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25The first that came forth, was reed, all rough as an hyde, and they called him Esau.

    26Anone therafter came his brother forth, which helde the hele of Esau with his hade, and they called him Iacob. Thre score yeare olde was Isaac, whan they were borne.

  • Heb 11:20
    72%

    20By faith Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau, concernynge thinges to come.

  • Gen 27:38-39
    2 verses
    72%

    38Esau sayde vnto his father? Hast thou not one blessynge more my father? O blesse me also my father. And he lift vp his voyce, & wepte.

    39Then Isaac his father answered and sayde vnto him: Beholde, thou shalt haue a fat dwellinge vpon earth, & of ye dew of heauen from aboue:

  • Gen 28:6
    72%

    6Now when Esau sawe that Isaac had blessed Iacob, and let him departe in to Mesopotamia, that he might take a wife there: and yt, as he blessed him, he charged him, & sayde: Thou shalt not take a wife of the doughters of Canaan,

  • Gen 27:6
    72%

    6Then sayde Rebecca vnto Iacob hir sonne: beholde, I haue herde thy father talkinge with Esau thy brother, and sayenge:

  • Gen 32:29
    71%

    29And Iacob axed him, & sayde: Tell me, what is yi name? But he sayde: Why axest thou what my name is? And he blessed him there.