He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your 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 subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
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And he said: 'Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.'
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Passages linked to Genesis 27:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
- Job 13:7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
- Malachi 2:10 Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
- Genesis 27:19-23 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.” Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.” Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.” Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
- 2 Kings 10:19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.
- 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 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with…
Gen 27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
Ver. 35. Thy brother came with subtilty.] Junius observes, that Isaac here, to please his son, committeth some oversight, in transferring the fault upon Jacob. He might have seen how God chastised his seeking to cross the oracle, in the sin of Rebekah and Jacob, who beguiled him. But our minds are as ill set as our eyes, - neither of them apt to turn inwards.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Which was thine by the right of nature, and…
Which was thine by the right of nature, and by custom of nations, and by my hearty desire and intention, as well as by thy own expectation and opinion.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he said, thy brother came with subtilty,.... The…
And he said, thy brother came with subtilty,.... The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi, interpret it, "with wisdom", taking it in a good sense, and as excusing the fact; or rather commending it, as if it was wisely and prudently managed; but the word signifies fraud and deceit, and so it must be understood; though it may be Isaac says this, not so much to blame Jacob for what he had done, as to excuse himself to Esau, that he did not intend to give the blessing from him, but that he was imposed upon through the craft and subtilty of his brother, who feigned himself to be Esau; pretending he had been hunting, and had had wonderful success, and had got venison, and had prepared it; and came with goat, skins upon his hands and neck, that he might seem to be hairy as Esau was, and by these artful tricks he had deceived him, and therefore Esau could not blame him for what he had done:
and hath taken away thy blessing; which belonged to him as the firstborn, and he expected to have, and Isaac intended to have given it to him.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 35. Hath taken away thy blessing.] This blessing,…
Verse 35. 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,
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2. Being the progenitor of the Messiah.
But the former is more explicitly declared than the latter. See Clarke on Ge 25:31.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Deceitfully. Hebrew, slily; directed by wisdom, as the Chaldean…
Deceitfully. Hebrew, slily; directed by wisdom, as the Chaldean has it. St. Chrysostom (de sacerd.) praises the address of Jacob on this occasion. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 35. Thy brother … guile] Isaac at once concludes…
35. Thy brother … guile] Isaac at once concludes that the deceiver was Jacob, and acknowledges that Jacob’s trick has succeeded.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he (i.e. Isaac) said, Thy brother came with…
And he (i.e. Isaac) said, Thy brother came with subtlety, with wisdom (Onkelos); rather with fraud, meta dolou (LXX) and hath taken away thy blessing i.e. the blessing which I thought was thine, since Isaac now understood that from the first it had been designed for Jacob.
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