Genesis 27:36-40
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
36 Esau said, ‘Is he not rightly named Jacob?[a] For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and look, now he has taken away my blessing.’ Then he said, ‘Have you not reserved a blessing for me?’ 37 Isaac answered Esau, ‘I have already made him your lord, and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?’ 38 Esau said to his father, ‘Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me, me also, father!’ And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39 Then his father Isaac answered him:
‘See, away from[b] the fatness of the earth shall your home be,
and away from[c] the dew of heaven on high.
40 By your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother;
but when you break loose,[d]
you shall break his yoke from your neck.’
Footnotes
- Genesis 27:36 That is He supplants or He takes by the heel
- Genesis 27:39 Or See, of
- Genesis 27:39 Or and of
- Genesis 27:40 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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