Genesis 27:11
“But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah,“and I have smooth skin!
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- Gen 25:25 : 25 The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.
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12My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”
- Gen 27:5-73 verses80%
5Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,
6Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
7‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’
- Gen 27:14-174 verses79%
14So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.
15Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.
17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.
- Gen 27:21-244 verses79%
21Then Isaac said to Jacob,“Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”
22So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said,“The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”
23He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
24Then he asked,“Are you really my son Esau?”“I am,” Jacob replied.
- Gen 27:41-433 verses77%
41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
42When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him,“Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.
43Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.
- Gen 25:25-284 verses76%
25The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.
26When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
28Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
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10Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”
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11Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.
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19Jacob said to his father,“I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”
- Gen 27:32-332 verses73%
32His father Isaac asked,“Who are you?”“I am your firstborn son,” he replied,“Esau!”
33Isaac began to shake violently and asked,“Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!”
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1Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him,“My son!”“Here I am!” Esau replied.
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5So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
- Gen 27:35-362 verses72%
35But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
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20You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”