Genesis 27:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

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."

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  • Deut 27:18 : 18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amen.
  • Job 12:16 : 16 With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
  • 2 Cor 6:8 : 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
  • Gen 27:21-22 : 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 27:36 : 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?"

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  • Gen 27:10-11
    2 verses
    81%

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

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

  • Gen 27:13-16
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    80%

    13His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

    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 kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

  • Gen 27:29-36
    8 verses
    78%

    29Let peoples serve you, Nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, Blessed be everyone who blesses you."

    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."

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

    33Isaac 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."

    34When 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."

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

    36He 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?"

  • Gen 27:5-7
    3 verses
    78%

    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,

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

  • Gen 27:21-27
    7 verses
    78%

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

    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."

    23He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

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

    25He 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.

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

    27He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

  • Gen 27:41-42
    2 verses
    77%

    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 27:18-19
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    76%

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

    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 44:34
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    34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • Gen 27:38
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    38Esau 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.

  • Gen 32:11
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    11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

  • Gen 44:29
    73%

    29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

  • Gen 31:29
    73%

    29It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'

  • Gen 32:20
    73%

    20You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

  • Gen 31:5
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    5and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

  • Gen 27:45
    73%

    45until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

  • Gen 27:1
    72%

    1It 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 44:32
    72%

    32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'