Genesis 27:32-33

27:32 His father Isaac asked, ¹  “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” ²  he replied, “Esau!” 27:33 Isaac began to shake violently ³  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. ⁴  He will indeed be blessed!”

[27:32]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[27:32]  ² tn Heb “and he said, ‘I [am] your son, your firstborn.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged for stylistic reasons.

[27:33]  ³ tn Heb “and Isaac trembled with a great trembling to excess.” The verb “trembled” is joined with a cognate accusative, which is modified by an adjective “great,” and a prepositional phrase “to excess.” All of this is emphatic, showing the violence of Isaac’s reaction to the news.

[27:33]  ⁴ tn 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?”