He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
- BSB Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
- NKJV Then he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”
- NASB And he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”
- NLT “But are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “Yes, I am,” Jacob replied.
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Quick answer
Isaac asks again if he is truly Esau, and Jacob lies, 'I am.'
Overview
Pressed once more, Jacob repeats his falsehood without flinching. The repeated lie shows how deeply he is committed to the deception. The verse marks the final confirmation Isaac sought before pronouncing the blessing.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Col 3:9Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
- Prov 12:22Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
- Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
- Prov 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
- Prov 12:19Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
- Job 15:5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Job 13:7–8Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
- Zech 8:16These 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,
- Rom 3:7–8For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
- 1 Sam 27:10Achish 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.”
- 1 Sam 21:13He 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 Sam 21:2David 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.’
- 2 Sam 14:5The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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