Discovery Box| (0.25) | Gen 27:1 |
| When 1 Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, 2 he called his older 3 son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau 4 replied. |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:4 |
| Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then 1 I will eat it so that I may bless you 2 before I die.” |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:9 |
| Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare 1 them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. |
| (0.25) | Gen 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. |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:19 |
| Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up 1 and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.” 2 |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:20 |
| But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world 1 did you find it so quickly, 2 my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” 3 he replied. 4 |
| (0.25) | Gen 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.” |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:25 |
| Isaac 1 said, “Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. 2 Then I will bless you.” 3 So Jacob 4 brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac 5 drank. |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:29 |
| May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be 1 lord 2 over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. 3 May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.” |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:30 |
| Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left 1 his father’s 2 presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. 3 |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:31 |
| He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau 1 said to him, “My father, get up 2 and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” 3 |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:34 |
| When Esau heard 1 his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. 2 He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!” |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:38 |
| Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” 1 Then Esau wept loudly. 2 |
| (0.25) | Gen 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.” 1 |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:41 |
| So Esau hated 1 Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. 2 Esau said privately, 3 “The time 4 of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill 5 my brother Jacob!” |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:42 |
| When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, 1 she quickly summoned 2 her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you. 3 |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:45 |
| Stay there 1 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. 2 Why should I lose both of you in one day?” 3 |
| (0.25) | Gen 27:46 |
| Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed 1 because of these daughters of Heth. 2 If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!” 3 |
| (0.25) | Gen 30:27 |
| But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, 1 for I have learned by divination 2 that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.” |
| (0.25) | Gen 37:27 |
| Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, 1 for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed. 2 |
