Genesis 27:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:12 : 12 He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.
  • Exod 20:7 : 7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.
  • Job 13:7 : 7 Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?

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  • Gen 27:30-33
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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!”

  • Gen 27:18-19
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    18He went to his father and said,“My father!” Isaac replied,“Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

    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 27:21-22
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    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 27:4-10
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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!

    9Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

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

  • Gen 27:24-27
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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.”

    27So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying,“Yes, my son smells like the scent of an open field which the LORD has blessed.

  • Gen 22:7-8
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    7Isaac said to his father Abraham,“My father?”“What is it, my son?” he replied.“Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said,“but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

    8“God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

  • 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 27:35-37
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    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?”

  • Gen 27:39
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    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 27:14
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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.