Genesis 27:40

By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. 1 It will happen, when you will break loose, 1 that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

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In The King James Version

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

In Context

39Isaac [Laughter] his father answered him, 1 “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, 1 and of the dew of the sky from above. 1

41Esau [Hairy] hated Jacob [Supplanter] because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau [Hairy] said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob [Supplanter].”

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Cross References

Genesis 27:29Let peoples serve you, 2 and nations bow down to you. 1 Be lord over your brothers. 2 Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. 1 Cursed be everyone who curses you. 2 Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

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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