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Genesis 27:40-42
International Standard Version
Genesis 27:40-42
International Standard Version
40 By your sword you’ll live;
but you’ll serve your brother.
But when you’ve become restless,
you’ll break off his yoke from your neck.”
41 So Esau harbored animosity toward Jacob because of the way his father had blessed him. Esau kept saying to himself,[a] “The time[b] to mourn for my father is very near. That’s when I’m going to kill my brother Jacob.”
42 Eventually, what Rebekah’s older son Esau had been saying was reported to her, so she sent for her younger son Jacob and warned him, “Look! Your brother is planning to get even by killing you.[c]
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- Genesis 27:41 Lit. saying in his heart
- Genesis 27:41 Lit. days
- Genesis 27:42 Lit. is comforting himself concerning you to kill you
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