Génesis 27:40

40 Por tu espada vivirás, y a tu hermano servirás; mas acontecerá que cuando te impacientes, arrancarás su yugo de tu cerviz.

Génesis 27:40 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 27:40

And by thy sword shalt thou live
By what he could get by it; his land being so poor that he could not live upon it, but must be obliged to such methods for a livelihood; or his country being surrounded with enemies, his posterity would be obliged to defend themselves by the sword, and other weapons of war: and shalt serve thy brother;
which is the sense and language of the oracle, ( Genesis 25:23 ) ; and which Isaac perhaps now remembered, and had a clear understanding of it, and delivers out his prophetic blessing agreeably to it: and it shall come to pass, when thou shalt have the dominion;
not over the Israelites, the posterity of Jacob, which the Edomites, Esau's posterity, never had; but when they should get a greater degree of strength, power, authority, and dominion in the world: that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck;
the Edomites should revolt from the posterity of Jacob, and shake off the yoke of bondage and subjection they had been long under; as they did in the times of Joram, king of Judah, and set up a king of their own, and continued in such a state of freedom a long time, see ( 2 Kings 8:20-22 ) .

Génesis 27:40 In-Context

38 Y Esaú dijo a su padre: ¿No tienes más que una bendición, padre mío? Bendíceme, bendíceme también a mí, padre mío. Y Esaú alzó su voz y lloró.

39 Entonces su padre Isaac respondió, y le dijo: He aquí, lejos de la fertilidad de la tierra será tu morada, y lejos del rocío que baja del cielo.

40 Por tu espada vivirás, y a tu hermano servirás; mas acontecerá que cuando te impacientes, arrancarás su yugo de tu cerviz.

41 Esaú, pues, guardó rencor a Jacob a causa de la bendición con que su padre lo había bendecido; y Esaú se dijo: Los días de luto por mi padre están cerca; entonces mataré a mi hermano Jacob.

42 Cuando las palabras de Esaú, su hijo mayor, le fueron comunicadas a Rebeca, envió a llamar a Jacob, su hijo menor, y le dijo: Mira, en cuanto a ti, tu hermano Esaú se consuela con la idea de matarte.