He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”
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He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”
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And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
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And he said: 'Art thou my very son Esau?' And he said: 'I am.'
Cross-references (13)
Passages linked to Genesis 27:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Colossians 3:9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
- Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
- Ephesians 4:25 Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
- 1 Samuel 21:2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’
- 1 Samuel 21:13 He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
- 1 Samuel 27:10 Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”
- Job 13:7-8 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
- Job 15:5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Proverbs 12:19 Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
- Proverbs 30:8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,
- Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
- Romans 3:7-8 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
- 2 Samuel 14:5 The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, I am.
Hebrew, I am.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 27:24 And he said, [Art] thou my very…
Gen 27:24 And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said, I [am].
Ver. 24. Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.] Thus one sin entertained fetcheth in another; a lie especially, which, being a tinkerly, blushful sin, is either denied by the liar, who is ashamed to be taken with it, or else covered by another and another lie, as we see here in Jacob, who, being once over shoes, will be over boots too, but he will persuade his father that he is his very son Esau.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And said, art thou my very son Esau?.... Still…
And said, art thou my very son Esau?.... Still having some doubt on his mind whether he really was so or not, because of his voice:
and he said, I am; as for the observation of Jarchi upon this, in order to excuse Jacob from lying, that he does not say, "I am Esau", only "I", it will not do, since it is an answer to Isaac's question, with a design to deceive him; and he intended by it that he should understand him as he did, that he was really Esau.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 24-26. And he said (showing that a feeling…
Vers. 24-26. And he said (showing that a feeling of uneasy suspicion yet lingered in his mind), Art thou my very son Esau? Luther wonders how Jacob was able to brazen it out; adding, "I should probably have run away in terror, and let the dish fall;" but, instead of that, he added one more lie to those which had preceded, saying with undisturbed composure, I am equivalent to an English yes; upon which the blind old patriarch requested that the proffered dainties might be set before him. Having partaken of the carefully-disguised kid"s flesh, and drunk an exhilarating cup of wine, he further desired that his favorite son should approach his bed, saying, Come near now, and kiss me, my son a request dictated more by paternal affection (Keil, Kalisch) than by lingering doubt which required reassurance (Lange).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 He said
He said
Isaac asks this question before blessing his son. AT: "But first Isaac asked" (See: Order of Events)
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eat of your game
The word "game" refers to a wild animal that people hunt and kill. See how "game" was translated in Genesis 27:7.
he drank
"Isaac drank it"
translationWords
Esau
Isaac
bless
Jacob
wine
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