Genesis 27:27-40

27 So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
28 May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.
29 May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
30 After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.
31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
32 His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
33 Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”
34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36 Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob[a] ? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
39 His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.
40 You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”

Cross References 32

  • 1. Genesis 31:28,55; Genesis 33:4; Genesis 48:10; Exodus 4:27; Exodus 18:7; Ruth 1:9; 1 Samuel 20:41; 2 Samuel 14:33; 2 Samuel 19:39
  • 2. Hebrews 11:20
  • 3. S ver 15; Song of Songs 4:11
  • 4. Psalms 65:9-13
  • 5. Deuteronomy 33:13; 2 Samuel 1:21; Job 18:16; Job 29:19; Proverbs 3:20; Isaiah 26:19; Hosea 14:5; Haggai 1:10; Zechariah 8:12
  • 6. ver 39; Genesis 49:25; Leviticus 26:20; Deuteronomy 33:13
  • 7. Psalms 65:9; Psalms 72:16
  • 8. ver 37; Genesis 45:18; Numbers 18:12; Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 33:28; 2 Kings 18:32; Psalms 4:7; Isaiah 36:17; Jeremiah 31:12; Jeremiah 40:10
  • 9. 2 Samuel 8:14; Psalms 68:31; Psalms 72:11; Isaiah 19:21,23; Isaiah 27:13; Isaiah 45:14,23; Isaiah 49:7,23; Isaiah 60:12,14; Isaiah 66:23; Jeremiah 12:17; Daniel 2:44; Zechariah 14:17-18
  • 10. S Genesis 9:25; S Genesis 25:23; S Genesis 37:7
  • 11. ver 33; Genesis 12:3; Numbers 24:9; Zephaniah 2:8
  • 12. S ver 4
  • 13. ver 18
  • 14. ver 19
  • 15. ver 35
  • 16. S ver 29; Genesis 28:3,4; Romans 11:29
  • 17. Hebrews 12:17
  • 18. Exodus 12:32
  • 19. Jeremiah 9:4; Jeremiah 12:6
  • 20. ver 19,45
  • 21. S Genesis 25:26
  • 22. Genesis 29:25; Genesis 31:20,26; Genesis 34:13; 1 Samuel 28:12
  • 23. S Genesis 25:33
  • 24. Hebrews 12:16-17
  • 25. S ver 28; Deuteronomy 16:13; Ezra 6:9; Isaiah 16:10; Jeremiah 40:12
  • 26. Genesis 29:11; Numbers 14:1; Judges 2:4; Judges 21:2; Ruth 1:9; 1 Samuel 11:4; 1 Samuel 30:4; Hebrews 12:17
  • 27. Hebrews 11:20
  • 28. ver 28
  • 29. Genesis 36:6
  • 30. 2 Samuel 8:14
  • 31. S Genesis 9:25; Genesis 25:23
  • 32. 2 Kings 8:20-22

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. "Jacob" means "he grasps the heel" , a Hebrew idiom for "he takes advantage of" or "he deceives" .
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