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Genesis 27:35-36

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said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.” 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.”
Genesis 27:35-36

Context / meaning

Genesis 27 [32.] Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?”

He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

Genesis 27 [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.”

Genesis 27 [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.”

Genesis 27 [35.] He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

Genesis 27 [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?”

Genesis 27 [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?”

Genesis 27 [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.


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