Genesis 27

²And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.

¹⁰Now Israel’s eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

²³and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

²⁴When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

³on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,

³Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.

¹⁴You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

¹⁰Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

³⁵Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.

¹Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

²¹Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

³But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

²⁸Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

⁹He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

¹²“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

²⁰By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

⁹Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”

²⁸These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

²⁵“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.

⁵¹While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

⁷‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’

²⁸Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

²⁶At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”

¹This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

¹⁹When a man finds his enemy, does he let him go away unharmed? May the Lord reward you with good for what you have done for me this day.

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

¹³His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

²⁹But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

²³and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

⁴³So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

¹⁹But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.

¹⁵“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”

²⁰And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat and sent them to Saul with his son David.

²⁵The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

¹⁸‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

²²Abstain from every form of evil.

⁸through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

¹⁶True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

¹⁴“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

²⁵All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

²⁴She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.

⁹But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

³³“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.

³⁶And Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, leaving no man alive!” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied. But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”

³⁷So Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You give them into the hand of Israel?” But God did not answer him that day.

²⁴Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the troops tasted any food.

²⁵Then all the troops entered the forest, and there was honey on the ground.

³⁴But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

⁹Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

¹⁷Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

²and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.

³Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

²⁸Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

⁴Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

²⁷So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.

⁴⁶“Beware of the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, and they love the greetings in the marketplaces, the chief seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.

²²But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

⁷⁰But he denied it before them all: “I do not know what you are talking about.”

⁷¹When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

¹⁵For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

³And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the Lord.’ When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.

⁴And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.

²⁴Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

²⁵“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.

²¹Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

⁴Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

⁷You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

⁷Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

¹²“O Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

¹⁹bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the Lord, “and I will heal them.”

⁸Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

¹²What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”

²⁸But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.

²⁰By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

¹⁶She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

¹¹Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

¹²not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

⁹Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

²²Lying lips are detestable to the Lord, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

²⁵Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

⁷Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

⁸Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?

²“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.

⁵For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

⁴Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

⁷For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

¹⁰You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

²⁰By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

¹²Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him,

⁶His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

⁷They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

¹¹Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.

¹²My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

²⁸So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.

¹³Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the Lord with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,

³It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

⁵I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

⁹You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.

¹⁰You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

¹³He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

⁹He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”

³I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

²³Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

²⁵he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

²⁶He also declared: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

¹²not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

¹⁴This is what the Lord says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”

⁴Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

¹⁸So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”

³May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

⁴And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

²⁹For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

⁶When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

¹“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

²⁸I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

²⁹My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

¹⁷For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.

³¹So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

⁴So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

³A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the Lord.

²⁴“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

²⁵After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’

²⁴Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

²⁵because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

⁶and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

⁷Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

¹⁰Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

¹⁹Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

⁷However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

⁸Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

⁷Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

²⁶After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

³¹“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

³²“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

²⁸Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

⁴⁷When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

²⁸May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.

²⁹May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of 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.”

²³and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

¹⁴He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.

¹⁰Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

¹¹Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

¹⁷For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.

³⁴When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”

¹⁴My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

³⁶So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

²⁴Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

²⁵because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

²⁸These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

²⁸May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.

²⁰By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

⁴and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

⁶Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.

⁷For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

²³and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

²⁰In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.

²¹So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.

¹⁴He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.

¹¹Amaziah, however, summoned his strength and led his troops to the Valley of Salt, where he struck down 10,000 men of Seir,

¹²and the army of Judah also captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.

¹⁰So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled against his hand at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the Lord, the God of his fathers.

⁸In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.

¹²Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

¹³So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

⁴When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

³taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

⁴When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that

²⁶“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

²⁷and do not give the devil a foothold.

⁶When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”

¹⁴With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

⁵David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

⁵They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

¹⁶For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

¹⁷For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

¹⁴from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

²¹Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

²²And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”

¹⁸Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

¹⁹“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

³¹And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

⁸Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

¹³His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

²⁹Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.

¹⁷As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

¹⁴The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!

³⁸I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.

⁴¹Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

²¹Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the Lord will prevail.

³⁵But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

⁸Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

⁹And the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

³⁷Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

⁴When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

⁶And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

⁷Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”

³⁴When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

³⁵And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

³and I will have you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,

⁸And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

¹Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

²When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

¹³If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

¹⁶I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.