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Genesis 27:34-36
Contemporary English Version
Genesis 27:34-36
Contemporary English Version
34 Esau cried out in great distress, “Father, give me a blessing too!”
35 Isaac answered, “Your brother tricked me and stole your blessing.”
36 (A) Esau replied, “My brother deserves the name Jacob,[a] because he has already cheated me twice. The first time he cheated me out of my rights as the first-born son, and now he has cheated me out of my blessing.” Then Esau asked his father, “Don't you have any blessing left for me?”
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- 27.36 Jacob: In Hebrew “Jacob” sounds like “cheat.”
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