Genesis 27:36

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Esau 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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  • Gen 25:26 : 26 When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
  • Gen 25:31-34 : 31 But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.” 32 “Look,” said Esau,“I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?” 33 But Jacob said,“Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed,“Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

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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!”

    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.”

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    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?”

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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.

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    11Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need.” When Jacob urged him, he took it.

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

    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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    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.

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    29Then Jacob asked,“Please tell me your name.”“Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

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    27The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.”

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    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.