Genesis 27:35 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 27:35

But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

BSB

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ASV

And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.

KJV

And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

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Commentary

2 voices

Hippolytus of Rome

ON THE BLESSINGS OF ISAAC AND JACOB 8 (235)

The fact that he says to him, "Your brother came by trickery and took away your blessing" means, in a way that implies a mystery, that the Word of God, after his incarnation, had to take the form of a slave. [Thus] thanks to him who was unknown in his generation, he might receive the blessing of the Father and transmit it to us, who believe in him.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Hath taken away thy blessing - This blessing, which was a different thing from the birthright, seems to consist of two parts: 1. The dominion, generally and finally, over the other part of the family; and, 2. Being the progenitor of the Messiah. But the former is more explicitly declared than the latter. See note on Gen 25:31.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
בָּ֥א	ba'	he came	H935 →
אָחִ֖יךָ	'a.Chi.kha	brother your	H251 →
בְּמִרְמָ֑ה	be.mir.Mah	with deceit	H4820 →
וַיִּקַּ֖ח	vai.yi.Kach	and he took	H3947 →
בִּרְכָתֶֽךָ׃	bir.kha.Te.kha	blessing your	H1293 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H1293birkhatekhablessing your69×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Malachi 2:10
Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
leads to
- Psalms 100:3
  Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Malachi 2:11
  Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
- 1 Corinthians 8:6
  yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and…
- Ephesians 4:6
  one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
- Isaiah 63:16
  Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
Through
1 Thessalonians 4:6
and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Exodus 20:17
  You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- Exodus 20:15
  You shall not steal.

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Isaac Blesses Jacob — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonPatriarchsIsaacThe son of promise and of laughter — bound on Moriah, the quiet inheritor of the covenant.

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04Related verses

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06About Genesis

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Genesis