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37 Isaac answered Esau, ‘I have already made him your lord, and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?’ 38 Esau said to his father, ‘Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me, me also, father!’ And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

39 Then his father Isaac answered him:

‘See, away from[a] the fatness of the earth shall your home be,
    and away from[b] the dew of heaven on high.

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  1. Genesis 27:39 Or See, of
  2. Genesis 27:39 Or and of

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