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Heart of David Study Bible GENESIS

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter
cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Ya`aqob? For he has supplanted me these two
times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said,
“Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
Yitshak answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers
have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then
will I do for you, my son?”
Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me
also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Yitshak his father answered him,

“Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling,
and of the dew of the sky from above.
By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother.
It will happen, when you will break loose,
that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

Esau hated Ya`aqob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau
said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my
brother Ya`aqob.”
The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Ribkah. She sent and called Ya`aqob,
her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you
by planning to kill you. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my
brother, in Haran. Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away; until
your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him.
Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one
day?”
Ribkah said to Yitshak, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If
Ya`aqob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land,
what good will my life do me?”
Yitshak called Ya`aqob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a
wife of the daughters of Kayinan. Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your
mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s
brother. May El Shaddai (the Mighty One Who Gives Blessings of the Breasts) bless you,
and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, and give

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