Genesis 27:19

World English Bible (2000)

Jacob 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."

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  • Gen 25:25 : 25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
  • Gen 27:4 : 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."
  • Gen 27:21 : 21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
  • Gen 27:24-25 : 24 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am." 25 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
  • Gen 29:23-25 : 23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. 24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. 25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
  • 1 Kgs 13:18 : 18 He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" He lied to him.
  • 1 Kgs 14:2 : 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself, that you won't be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Go to Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.
  • Isa 28:15 : 15 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'"
  • Zech 13:3-4 : 3 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies. 4 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
  • Matt 26:70-74 : 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don't know what you are talking about." 71 When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth." 72 Again he denied it with an oath, "I don't know the man." 73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known." 74 Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 27:30-39
    10 verses
    90%

    30 It 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.

    31 He 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."

    32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

    33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

    34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."

    35 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

    36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

    37 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"

    38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

    39 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

  • Gen 27:24-26
    3 verses
    85%

    24 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."

    25 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

    26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

  • Gen 27:4-8
    5 verses
    83%

    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.

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

    7 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'

    8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

  • Gen 27:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

    18 He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

  • Gen 27:10
    81%

    10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

  • Gen 27:20-22
    3 verses
    80%

    20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."

    21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

    22 Jacob 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 27:1
    77%

    1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

  • Gen 25:28-31
    4 verses
    77%

    28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

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

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

    31 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."

  • Gen 27:12
    76%

    12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    76%

    41 Esau 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."

    42 The 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 27:14
    75%

    14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

  • Gen 25:34
    74%

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