Genesis 27:8-11

27:8 Now then, my son, do ¹  exactly what I tell you! ²  27:9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare ³  them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. 27:10 Then you will take ⁴  it to your father. Thus he will eat it ⁵  and ⁶  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! ⁷ 

Genesis 27:2

27:2 Isaac ⁸  said, “Since ⁹  I am so old, I could die at any time. ¹⁰ 

Genesis 22:3-4

22:3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. ¹¹  He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out ¹²  for the place God had spoken to him about.

22:4 On the third day Abraham caught sight of ¹³  the place in the distance.

Ezekiel 19:2-3

19:2 and say:

“‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions!

She lay among young lions; ¹⁴  she reared her cubs.

19:3 She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion.

He learned to tear prey; he devoured people. ¹⁵ 

Matthew 14:8

14:8 Instructed by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

[27:8]  ¹ tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The Hebrew idiom means “to comply; to obey.”

[27:8]  ² tn Heb “to that which I am commanding you.”

[27:9]  ³ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative (with the prefixed conjunction) indicates purpose or result.

[27:10]  ⁴ tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive. It carries forward the tone of instruction initiated by the command to “go…and get” in the preceding verse.

[27:10]  ⁵ tn The form is the perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it carries the future nuance of the preceding verbs of instruction, but by switching the subject to Jacob, indicates the expected result of the subterfuge.

[27:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “so that.” The conjunction indicates purpose or result.

[27:11]  ⁷ tn 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 of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[27:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaac) is specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:2]  ⁹ tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) here introduces a logically foundational statement, upon which the coming instruction will be based.

[27:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I do not know the day of my death.”

[22:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey.”

[22:3]  ¹² tn Heb “he arose and he went.”

[22:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “lifted up his eyes and saw.”

[19:2]  ¹⁴ sn Lions probably refer to Judahite royalty and/or nobility. The lioness appears to symbolize the Davidic dynasty, though some see the referent as Hamutal, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. Gen 49:9 seems to be the background for Judah being compared to lions.

[19:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “a man.”