Genesis 27:38
Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.
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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.
- Gen 27:34 : 34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father,“Bless me too, my father!”
- Gen 27:36 : 36 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?”
- Gen 49:28 : 28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.
- Prov 1:24-26 : 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,
- Isa 32:10-12 : 10 In a year’s time you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive. 11 Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves– put sackcloth on your waist! 12 Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!
- Isa 65:14 : 14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.
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- Gen 27:29-379 verses93%
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.”
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 27:41-422 verses79%
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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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.
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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 27:18-192 verses77%
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.”
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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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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.
- Gen 27:21-277 verses74%
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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32“Look,” said Esau,“I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”
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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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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.)
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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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6Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
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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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9But Esau said,“I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”
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15So Esau said,“Let me leave some of my men with you.”“Why do that?” Jacob replied.“My lord has already been kind enough to me.”
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6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”