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Genesis 27:30

in Genesis 27

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

KJV

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

This verse in Genesis 27

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him

on Genesis 27:30-31

Jacob leaves his father's presence as Esau walks in from the hunt, the two of them within a minute of each other. Esau brings the same dish and asks for the same blessing, in nearly his brother's words. Genesis reports the timing and draws nothing from it.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Augustine of Hippo

SERMON 4.17 · Written in the 5th century.

proposed

The other one, you see, comes along in the evening, and brings what his father ordered, and finds his brother has been blessed instead of himself and is not blessed with a second blessing. Because those two men were two peoples. One blessing signifies the unity of the church. But they are two peoples.… But the two peoples who belong to Jacob are represented in other ways. You see, our Lord Jesus Christ, who had come to Jews and Gentiles, was repudiated by the Jews, who belonged to the elder son. However, he chose some of them who belonged to the younger son, who had begun to desire and understand the Lord's promises, not taking that land they desired materialistically but spiritually desiring that city where no one is materially born, because in it no one either materially or spiritually dies.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of, blessing Jacob,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But a moment's reflection convinced the aged patriarch that the transfer of the blessing was "of the Lord," and now irrevocable. The importunities of Esau, however, overpowered him; and as the prophetic afflatus was upon the patriarch, he added what was probably as pleasing to a man of Esau's character as the other would have been.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֗יand it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רjust as

    kaasherH8345497 times

  • כִּלָּ֣הhe had finished

    kilahH3615208 times

  • יִצְחָק֮Isaac

    yitzchakH3327108 times

  • לְבָרֵ֣ךְto bless

    levarekhH1288330 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יַעֲקֹב֒Jacob

    yaakoH3290350 times

  • וַיְהִ֗יand it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • אַ֣ךְsurely

    ʾakhH389161 times

  • יָצֹ֤אcertainly <to go out>

    yatzo'H33181067 times

  • יָצָא֙he had gone out

    yatza'H33181067 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֔בJacob

    yaakoH3290350 times

  • מֵאֵ֥תfrom with

    meetH854929 times

  • פְּנֵ֖י[the] face of

    peneiH64402123 times

  • יִצְחָ֣קIsaac

    yitzchakH3327108 times

  • אָבִ֑יוfather his

    ʾavivH11212 times

  • וְעֵשָׂ֣וand Esau

    veesavH621597 times

  • אָחִ֔יוbrother his

    ʾachivH251630 times

  • בָּ֖אhe came

    ba'H9352568 times

  • מִצֵּידֽוֹ׃from hunting his

    mitzeidoH671819 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on Augustine of Hippo, SERMON 4.17; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).