Genesis 27:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jacob 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.”

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  • Gen 25:25 : 25 The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.
  • Gen 27:4 : 4 Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die.”
  • Gen 27:21 : 21 Then Isaac said to Jacob,“Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”
  • Gen 27:24-25 : 24 Then he asked,“Are you really my son Esau?”“I am,” Jacob replied. 25 Isaac said,“Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.
  • Gen 29:23-25 : 23 In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her. 24 (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) 25 In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”
  • 1 Kgs 13:18 : 18 Then the old prophet said,“I too am a prophet like you. And an angel has told me in a message from the LORD,‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat food and drink water.’” But he had lied to him.
  • 1 Kgs 14:2 : 2 Jeroboam told his wife,“Disguise yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there.
  • Isa 28:15 : 15 For you say,“We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.”
  • Zech 13:3-4 : 3 Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him,‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the LORD.’Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies. 4 “Therefore, on that day each prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies and will no longer wear the hairy garment of a prophet to deceive the people.
  • Matt 26:70-74 : 70 But he denied it in front of them all:“I don’t know what you’re talking about!” 71 When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there,“This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.” 72 He denied it again with an oath,“I do not know the man!” 73 After a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said,“You really are one of them too– even your accent gives you away!” 74 At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath,“I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 27:30-39
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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.

    31He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him,“My father, get up and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.”

    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!”

    34When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father,“Bless me too, my father!”

    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?”

    37Isaac replied to Esau,“Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

    38Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

    39So his father Isaac said to him,“See here, your home will be by the richness of the earth, and by the dew of the sky above.

  • Gen 27:24-26
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    24Then he asked,“Are you really my son Esau?”“I am,” Jacob replied.

    25Isaac said,“Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.

    26Then his father Isaac said to him,“Come here and kiss me, my son.”

  • Gen 27:4-8
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    4Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die.”

    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.’

    8Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

  • Gen 27:17-18
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    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

    18He went to his father and said,“My father!” Isaac replied,“Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

  • Gen 27:10
    81%

    10Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

  • Gen 27:20-22
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    20But Isaac asked his son,“How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?”“Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

    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.”

  • Gen 27:1
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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.

  • Gen 25:28-31
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    28Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

    29Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

    30So Esau said to Jacob,“Feed me some of the red stuff– yes, this red stuff– because I’m starving!”(That is why he was also called Edom.)

    31But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.”

  • Gen 27:12
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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 27:41-42
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    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.

  • Gen 27:14
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    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.

  • Gen 25:34
    74%

    34Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.