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Genesis 27:34-36
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 27:34-36
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, father!”(A) 35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” 36 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob?[a] For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”(B)
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- 27.36 That is, he supplants or he takes by the heel
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