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Genesis 27:8-10
New English Translation

8 Now then, my son, do exactly[a] what I tell you![b] 9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare[c] them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. 10 Then you will take[d] it to your father. Thus he will eat it[e] and[f] bless you before he dies.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:8 tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The Hebrew idiom means “to comply; to obey.”
  2. Genesis 27:8 tn Heb “to that which I am commanding you.”
  3. Genesis 27:9 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative (with the prefixed conjunction) indicates purpose or result.
  4. Genesis 27:10 tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive. It carries forward the tone of instruction initiated by the command to “go…and get” in the preceding verse.
  5. Genesis 27:10 tn The form is the perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it carries the future nuance of the preceding verbs of instruction, but by switching the subject to Jacob, indicates the expected result of the subterfuge.
  6. Genesis 27:10 tn Heb “so that.” The conjunction indicates purpose or result.
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