Genesis 27:35

And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

In Context

34Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great cry: and being in a great consternation, said: Bless me also, my father.

36But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: my first birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?

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Cross References

Genesis 29:25And he said to his father in law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?

Job 13:7Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Romans 3:7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

1 Thessalonians 4:6And that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before, and have testified.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 27:31-41

The Blessing Pronounced on Jacob and Esau. ( b. c. 1760.) 30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. 32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy… Read the whole commentary →

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