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Genesis 27

Genesis 27:10

You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

  • KJV King James Version

    And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death.'

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 27:10 And thou shalt bring [it] to thy…

Gen 27:10 And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

Ver. 10. And thou shalt bring it to thy father.] Though this action, in the general intendment, was good, yet the execution of it wanted not particular error. Her course had been, rather, to have reminded her husband of God’s promise to Jacob, and gently to have exhorted him to do nothing against it; and then to have entreated the Lord, to bend his mind to the obedience of his divine will, though to the crossing of his own. But the saint’s righteousness, while here, is mixed; as light and darkness, dimness at least, in a painted glass, dyed with some obscure and dim colour: it is transparent, and giveth good, but not clear and pure light.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shall bring it to thy father,.... For…
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