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Genesis 27:35
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But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
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And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
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He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
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And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.
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Genesis 27
33 Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
35 But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36 So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
37 But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
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