Genesis 25:27

World English Bible (2000)

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

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  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
  • Gen 21:20 : 20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
  • Gen 27:3-5 : 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison. 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die." 5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
  • Gen 27:40 : 40 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
  • Gen 28:10-11 : 10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
  • Gen 31:39-41 : 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
  • Gen 46:34 : 34 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
  • Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
  • Job 1:8 : 8 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
  • Job 2:3 : 3 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
  • Gen 6:9 : 9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
  • Gen 10:9 : 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."

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  • Gen 27:30-31
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    30It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

    31He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."

  • Gen 25:28-30
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    28Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

    29Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

    30Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

  • Gen 25:25-26
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    25The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

    26After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

  • Gen 27:5-6
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    5Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

    6Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

  • Gen 27:14-16
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    14He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

    15Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

    16She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

  • Gen 27:11
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    11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

    42The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

  • Gen 27:22
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    22Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

  • Gen 27:19
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    19Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

  • Gen 21:20
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    20God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

  • Gen 25:34
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    34Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • Gen 36:6
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    6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.