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Jacob's
Deception |
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Genesis 27:1
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Now it came about, when Isaac was old and his
eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My
son." And he said to him, "Here I am." |
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Genesis 27:2
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Isaac said, "Behold now, I am old and I do not
know the day of my death. |
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Genesis 27:3
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"Now then, please take your gear, your quiver
and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me; |
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Genesis 27:4
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and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love,
and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die." |
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Genesis 27:5
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Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his
son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring home, |
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Genesis 27:6
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Behold, I heard
your father speak to your brother Esau, saying, |
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Genesis 27:7
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'Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish
for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'
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Genesis 27:8
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"Now therefore, my son, listen to me as I command
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Genesis 27:9
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"Go now to the flock and bring me two choice
young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father,
such as he loves. |
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Genesis 27:10
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"Then you shall bring it to your father, that
he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death." |
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Genesis 27:11
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Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Behold,
Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man. |
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Genesis 27:12
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"Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will
be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a
blessing." |
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Genesis 27:13
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But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on
me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me." |
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Genesis 27:14
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So he went and got them, and brought them to
his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father loved. |
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Genesis 27:15
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Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau
her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger
son. |
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Genesis 27:16
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And she put the skins of the young goats on
his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. |
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Genesis 27:17
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She also gave the savory food and the bread,
which she had made, to her son Jacob. |
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Genesis 27:18
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Then he came to his father and said, "My father."
And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?" |
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Genesis 27:19
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Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn;
I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, that you may
bless me." |
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Genesis 27:20
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Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have
it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the LORD your God caused it to happen
to me." |
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Genesis 27:21
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Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come close,
that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not." |
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Genesis 27:22
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So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and
he felt him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the
hands of Esau." |
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Genesis 27:23
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He did not recognize him, because his hands
were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him. |
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Genesis 27:24
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And he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And
he said, "I am." |
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Genesis 27:25
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So he said, "Bring it to me, and I will eat
of my son's game, that I may bless you." And he brought it to him, and he ate;
he also brought him wine and he drank. |
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Genesis 27:26
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come
close and kiss me, my son." |
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Genesis 27:27
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So he came close and kissed him; and when he
smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said, "See, the smell of
my son Is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed; |
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Genesis 27:28
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Now may God give you of the dew of heaven, And
of the fatness of the earth, And an abundance of grain and new wine; |
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Genesis 27:29
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May peoples serve you, And nations bow down
to you; Be master of your brothers, And may your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you." |
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The
Stolen Blessing |
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Genesis 27:30
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Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished
blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father,
that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. |
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Genesis 27:31
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Then he also made savory food, and brought it
to his father; and he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his
son's game, that you may bless me." |
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Genesis 27:32
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Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?"
And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." |
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Genesis 27:33
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Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who
was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it
before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed." |
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Genesis 27:34
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When Esau heard the words of his father, he
cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless
me, even me also, O my father!" |
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Genesis 27:35
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And he said, "Your brother came deceitfully
and has taken away your blessing." |
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Genesis 27:36
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Then he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob,
for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold,
now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing
for me?" |
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Genesis 27:37
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But Isaac replied to Esau, "Behold, I have made
him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with
grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my
son?" |
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Genesis 27:38
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Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one
blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." So Esau lifted his
voice and wept. |
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Genesis 27:39
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Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,
"Behold, away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling, And away
from the dew of heaven from above. |
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Genesis 27:40
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"By your sword you shall live, And your brother
you shall serve; But it shall come about when you become restless, That you will
break his yoke from your neck." |
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Genesis 27:41
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So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because
of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said to himself,
"The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
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Genesis 27:42
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Now when the words of her elder son Esau were
reported to Rebekah, she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him,
"Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill
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Genesis 27:43
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"Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise,
flee to Haran, to my brother Laban! |
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Genesis 27:44
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"Stay with him a few days, until your brother's
fury subsides, |
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Genesis 27:45
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until your brother's anger against you subsides
and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why
should I be bereaved of you both in one day?" |
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Genesis 27:46
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Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am tired of living
because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of
Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to
me?" |
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