And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
Parallel translations
- WEB He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
- BSB But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
- NKJV But he said, “Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing.”
- NASB And he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.”
- NLT But Isaac said, “Your brother was here, and he tricked me. He has taken away your blessing.”
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Isaac tells Esau that Jacob came deceitfully and took his blessing.
Overview
Isaac plainly names Jacob's deceit, acknowledging the wrong done. Yet the blessing already given cannot be revoked. The honest admission of deception alongside the blessing's permanence shows Scripture neither hides sin nor undoes God's overruling purpose.
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- 1 Th 4:6That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
- Mal 2:10Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
- Job 13:7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
- 2 Cor 4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
- 2 Kgs 10:19Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
- Gen 27:19–23And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
- Rom 3:7–8For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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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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