Genesis 27:34

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Heb 12:17 : 17 For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
  • Prov 19:3 : 3 A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.
  • Luke 13:24-28 : 24 “Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him,‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you,‘I don’t know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say,‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will reply,‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.
  • 1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.
  • Prov 1:24-28 : 24 However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention, 25 and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke, 26 so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes, 27 when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you. 28 Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.

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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?”

    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 27:29-33
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    29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

    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!”

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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!”

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

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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.”

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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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    4But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

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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.”

    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.

    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.

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    17For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

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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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    32“Look,” said Esau,“I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

    33But Jacob said,“Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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