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Text -- Genesis 27:1--28:9 (NET)
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Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing
27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind , he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son !” “Here I am!” Esau replied .
27:2 Isaac said , “Since I am so old , I could die at any time .
27:3 Therefore , take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.
27:4 Then prepare for me some tasty food , the kind I love , and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die .”
27:5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau . When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back ,
27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob , “Look , I overheard your father tell your brother Esau ,
27:7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food . Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die .’
27:8 Now then, my son , do exactly what I tell you!
27:9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats . I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father , just the way he loves them.
27:10 Then you will take it to your father . Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies .”
27:11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man ,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah , “and I have smooth skin !
27:12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing .”
27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son ! Just obey me ! Go and get them for me!”
27:14 So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother . She prepared some tasty food , just the way his father loved it.
27:15 Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes , which she had with her in the house , and put them on her younger son Jacob .
27:16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck .
27:17 Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob .
27:18 He went to his father and said , “My father !” Isaac replied , “Here I am. Which are you , my son ?”
27:19 Jacob said to his father , “I am Esau , your firstborn . I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”
27:20 But Isaac asked his son , “How in the world did you find it so quickly , my son ?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” he replied .
27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob , “Come closer so I can touch you , my son , and know for certain if you really are my son Esau .”
27:22 So Jacob went over to his father Isaac , who felt him and said , “The voice is Jacob’s , but the hands are Esau’s .”
27:23 He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy , like his brother Esau’s hands . So Isaac blessed Jacob.
27:24 Then he asked , “Are you really my son Esau ?” “I am,” Jacob replied .
27:25 Isaac said , “Bring some of the wild game for me to eat , my son . Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine , and Isaac drank .
27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son .”
27:27 So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing , he blessed him, saying , “Yes , my son smells like the scent of an open field which the Lord has blessed .
27:28 May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth , and plenty of grain and new wine .
27:29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers , and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed , and those who bless you be blessed .”
27:30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob , and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence , when his brother Esau returned from the hunt .
27:31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father . Esau said to him, “My father , get up and eat some of your son’s wild game . Then you can bless me.”
27:32 His father Isaac asked, “Who are you ?” “I am your firstborn son ,” he replied , “Esau !”
27:33 Isaac began to shake violently and asked , “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived , and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed !”
27:34 When Esau heard his father’s words , he wailed loudly and bitterly . He said to his father , “Bless me too , my father !”
27:35 But Isaac replied , “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing .”
27:36 Esau exclaimed , “‘Jacob ’ is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times ! He took away my birthright , and now , look , he has taken away my blessing !” Then he asked , “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
27:37 Isaac replied to Esau , “Look ! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine . What is left that I can do for you, my son ?”
27:38 Esau said to his father , “Do you have only that one blessing , my father ? Bless me too !” Then Esau wept loudly .
27:39 So his father Isaac said to him, “Indeed , your home will be away from the richness of the earth , and away from the dew of the sky above .
27:40 You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother . When you grow restless , you will tear off his yoke from your neck .”
27:41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately , “The time of mourning for my father is near ; then I will kill my brother Jacob !”
27:42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said , she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look , your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.
27:43 Now then, my son , do what I say . Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran .
27:44 Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides .
27:45 Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there . Why should I lose both of you in one day ?”
27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac , “I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth . If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land , I would want to die!”
28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman !
28:2 Leave immediately for Paddan Aram ! Go to the house of Bethuel , your mother’s father , and find yourself a wife there , among the daughters of Laban , your mother’s brother .
28:3 May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants ! Then you will become a large nation .
28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham , the land where you have been living as a temporary resident .”
28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram , to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah , the mother of Jacob and Esau .
28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there . As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman .”
28:7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram .
28:8 Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac .
28:9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath , the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael , along with the wives he already had.
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Rebekah |
Birthright |
PENTATEUCH, 2A |
HEREDITY |
Hypocrisy |
Family |
Parents |
Craftiness |
Dishonesty |
Isaac |
Death |
Greed |
Lies and Deceits |
Deception |
Children |
FATHER |
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NET Notes -> Gen 27:1; Gen 27:1; Gen 27:1; Gen 27:1; Gen 27:2; Gen 27:2; Gen 27:2; Gen 27:3; Gen 27:4; Gen 27:4; Gen 27:5; Gen 27:5; Gen 27:7; Gen 27:7; Gen 27:7; Gen 27:8; Gen 27:8; Gen 27:9; Gen 27:10; Gen 27:10; Gen 27:10; Gen 27:11; Gen 27:12; Gen 27:13; Gen 27:13; Gen 27:14; Gen 27:14; Gen 27:16; Gen 27:16; Gen 27:17; Gen 27:18; Gen 27:18; Gen 27:19; Gen 27:19; Gen 27:20; Gen 27:20; Gen 27:20; Gen 27:20; Gen 27:21; Gen 27:21; Gen 27:23; Gen 27:24; Gen 27:25; Gen 27:25; Gen 27:25; Gen 27:25; Gen 27:25; Gen 27:27; Gen 27:27; Gen 27:27; Gen 27:28; Gen 27:28; Gen 27:29; Gen 27:29; Gen 27:29; Gen 27:30; Gen 27:30; Gen 27:30; Gen 27:31; Gen 27:31; Gen 27:31; Gen 27:32; Gen 27:32; Gen 27:33; Gen 27:33; Gen 27:34; Gen 27:34; Gen 27:35; Gen 27:35; Gen 27:36; Gen 27:36; Gen 27:38; Gen 27:38; Gen 27:39; Gen 27:39; Gen 27:40; Gen 27:41; Gen 27:41; Gen 27:41; Gen 27:41; Gen 27:41; Gen 27:42; Gen 27:42; Gen 27:42; Gen 27:43; Gen 27:43; Gen 27:44; Gen 27:45; Gen 27:45; Gen 27:45; Gen 27:46; Gen 27:46; Gen 27:46; Gen 28:1; Gen 28:2; Gen 28:3; Gen 28:3; Gen 28:3; Gen 28:3; Gen 28:4; Gen 28:4; Gen 28:4; Gen 28:6; Gen 28:6; Gen 28:6; Gen 28:8; Gen 28:8; Gen 28:8; Gen 28:9
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NET Notes: Gen 27:3 The Hebrew word is to be spelled either צַיִד (tsayid) following the marginal reading (Qere), or צֵי...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:4 Heb “so that my soul may bless you.” The use of נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”) a...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:5 The LXX adds here “to his father,” which may have been accidentally omitted in the MT.
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NET Notes: Gen 27:7 In her report to Jacob, Rebekah plays down Isaac’s strong desire to bless Esau by leaving out נַפְשִׁ&...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:9 Following the imperative, the cohortative (with the prefixed conjunction) indicates purpose or result.
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NET Notes: Gen 27:11 Heb “And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, ‘Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth [skinned] man.’” The order...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:12 Heb “Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes like a mocker.” The Hebrew expression “I will be in his eyes like̶...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:14 Heb “his mother.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “she” in the translation for stylistic reasons.
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NET Notes: Gen 27:16 The word “hands” probably includes the forearms here. How the skins were attached is not specified in the Hebrew text; cf. NLT “she ...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:18 Which are you, my son? Isaac’s first question shows that the deception is going to require more subterfuge than Rebekah had anticipated. Jacob w...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:19 Heb “so that your soul may bless me.” These words, though not reported by Rebekah to Jacob (see v. 7) accurately reflect what Isaac actual...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:20 Heb “and he said, ‘Because the Lord your God….’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been ...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:21 Heb “Are you this one, Esau, my son, or not?” On the use of the interrogative particle here, see BDB 210 s.v. הֲ.
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NET Notes: Gen 27:23 Heb “and he blessed him.” The referents of the pronouns “he” (Isaac) and “him” (Jacob) have been specified in the ...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:24 Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Gen 27:25 Heb “and he drank”; the referent (Isaac) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Gen 27:29 Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (which is either an imperfect or a jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or resu...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:32 Heb “and he said, ‘I [am] your son, your firstborn.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been r...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:33 Heb “Who then is he who hunted game and brought [it] to me so that I ate from all before you arrived and blessed him?”
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NET Notes: Gen 27:36 He has tripped me up. When originally given, the name Jacob was a play on the word “heel” (see Gen 25:26). The name (since it is a verb) p...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:40 You will tear off his yoke from your neck. It may be that this prophetic blessing found its fulfillment when Jerusalem fell and Edom got its revenge. ...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:42 Heb “is consoling himself with respect to you to kill you.” The only way Esau had of dealing with his anger at the moment was to plan to k...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:44 Heb “a few days.” Rebekah probably downplays the length of time Jacob will be gone, perhaps to encourage him and assure him that things wi...
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NET Notes: Gen 27:46 Heb “If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, why to me life?”
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NET Notes: Gen 28:2 Heb “Arise! Go!” The first of the two imperatives is adverbial and stresses the immediacy of the departure.
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NET Notes: Gen 28:4 Heb “the land of your sojournings,” that is, the land where Jacob had been living as a resident alien, as his future descendants would aft...
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